sex needs no unscrambling at all — the three-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 3 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sex is the highest-scoring word from sex, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 3 of 3 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one three-letter word uses the letters in sex — and it is sex itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sex. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: ex, 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 sex and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
sex 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in sex carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for sex. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
sex is the only three-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sex unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sex, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sex 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 sex produce 3 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 three-letter word and 2 two-letter words.