Hidden inside refluxes sit flexures and refluxes, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 117 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
flexures and refluxes tie for the highest Scrabble score from refluxes at 18 points. The top 10 of 117 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in refluxes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and refluxes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are flexures and refluxes, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in refluxes produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is flexure, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling refluxes turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with refuse. For points, the strongest plays are flexes, fluxes, reflex, and reflux — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refluxes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feels, flees, lures, and rules. For points, the strongest plays are lexes, lurex, luxer, luxes, rexes, sexer, and xerus — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in refluxes produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, exes, feel, fees, flee, flus, and free. For points, the strongest plays are flex and flux — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling refluxes turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fee, flu, fur, see, sex, and sue. For points, the strongest plays are lex, lux, rex, and sex — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refluxes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex and us. For points, the strongest plays are ex and xu — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in refluxes and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
refluxes is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for refluxes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
refluxes is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing refluxes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are flexures and refluxes, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from refluxes earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in refluxes produce 117 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.