Hidden inside silex sit lexis and silex, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lexis and silex tie for the highest Scrabble score from silex at 12 points. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in silex: one comes from rearranging its letters, and silex itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lexis and silex, 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 silex produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lies. For points, the strongest play is ilex — 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 silex turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, sex, and six. For points, the strongest plays are lex, sex, six, and xis — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in silex. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex and is. For points, the strongest plays are ex and xi — 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 silex and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
silex 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 silex. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
silex is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing silex unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lexis and silex, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from silex 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 silex produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.