Hidden inside silexes sit lexises and silexes, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lexises and silexes tie for the highest Scrabble score from silexes at 14 points. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in silexes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and silexes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lexises and silexes, 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 silexes turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are exiles and ilexes, 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in silexes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sexes. For points, the strongest plays are exile, lexes, lexis, sexes, silex, and sixes — 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 silexes produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, exes, less, lies, and sees. For points, the strongest plays are exes and ilex — 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 silexes turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, see, 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 silexes. 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 silexes 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.
silexes 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 silexes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
silexes is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing silexes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lexises and silexes, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from silexes 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 silexes produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.