sixpences needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 151 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sixpences is the highest-scoring word from sixpences, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 151 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in sixpences — and it is sixpences itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sixpences produces exactly one eight-letter word: sixpence. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sixpences produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with penises and species. For points, the strongest play is excises — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sixpences turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nieces, pieces, scenes, spices, and spines. For points, the strongest plays are excess and excise — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sixpences. If a familiar word is all you need, start with niece, penes, penis, piece, scene, sense, and sexes. For points, the strongest plays are execs, pixes, and xenic — 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 sixpences produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with epic, exes, ices, nice, pees, pens, and pies. For points, the strongest play is exec — 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 sixpences turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, pee, pen, pie, pin, see, and sex. For points, the strongest play is pix — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sixpences. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, in, 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 sixpences and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
sixpences 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.
sixpences is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sixpences unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sixpences, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sixpences 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 sixpences produce 151 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.