sextants needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 132 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sextants is the highest-scoring word from sextants, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 132 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in sextants — and it is sextants itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sextants produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sextans and sextant, 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 sextants turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sanest, states, and tastes. For points, the strongest plays are extant and sextan — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sextants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nests, seats, state, stats, taste, taxes, and tents. For points, the strongest plays are nexts, saxes, sexts, taxes, texas, and texts — 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 sextants produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, east, eats, neat, nest, nets, and next. For points, the strongest plays are axes, next, sext, and text — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sextants turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ass, ate, eat, net, sat, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are axe, sax, sex, and tax — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sextants. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in sextants 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.
sextants 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 sextants. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
sextants is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sextants unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sextants, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sextants 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 sextants produce 132 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.