simplex needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 85 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
simplex is the highest-scoring word from simplex, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 85 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in simplex — and it is simplex itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling simplex turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with simple. For points, the strongest play is pixels — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in simplex. If a familiar word is all you need, start with miles, mixes, piles, and smile. For points, the strongest plays are mixes, pixel, and pixes — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in simplex produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lies, lips, mile, pies, pile, slim, and slip. For points, the strongest play is plex — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling simplex turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, lip, mix, pie, sex, sip, and six. For points, the strongest plays are mix and pix — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in simplex. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, is, and me. 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 simplex 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.
simplex 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 3-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 simplex. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
simplex is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing simplex unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is simplex, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from simplex 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 simplex produce 85 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.