Hidden inside starex sit extras and taxers, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
STAREX isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to EXTRAS and TAXERS.
extras and taxers tie for the highest Scrabble score from starex at 13 points. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling starex 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 extras and taxers, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in starex. If a familiar word is all you need, start with extra, rates and stare. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including extra, taxes and raxes.
Rearranging the letters in starex produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears and east. For points, the strongest plays are axes and sext — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling starex turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including sex, tax and axe.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in starex. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and ex. For points, the strongest plays are ax and ex — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in starex plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in starex and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are extras and taxers, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from starex 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 starex produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.