sextant needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sextant is the highest-scoring word from sextant, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in sextant — and it is sextant itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sextant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with state, taste and taxes. For points, the strongest plays are nexts, taxes, texas, and texts — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sextant produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, east and eats. For points, the strongest plays are axes, next, sext, and text — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sextant turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate and eat. For points, the strongest plays are axe, sax, sex, and tax — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sextant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, and ex. For points, the strongest plays are ax and ex — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in sextant plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sextant and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
sextant 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 1-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 sextant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
sextant is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sextant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sextant, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sextant 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 sextant produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.