Hidden inside stempex is one standout: exempts, a seven-letter play worth 18 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble TEMPESX, PXEEMST or XEMPSET and you get the same 7 letters as STEMPEX: so the words from STEMPEX listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
STEMPEX isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to EXEMPTS (verb, form of exempt), to free from an obligation required of others, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
exempts is the highest-scoring word from stempex, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling stempex produces exactly one seven-letter word: exempts. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling stempex produces exactly one six-letter word: exempt. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in stempex produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exes, meet and pees. For points, the strongest plays are exes and sext — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling stempex turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met, pee and pet. For points, the strongest play is sex — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in stempex 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is exempts, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from stempex 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 stempex produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.