syntaxes needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 150 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
syntaxes is the highest-scoring word from syntaxes, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 150 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in syntaxes — and it is syntaxes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling syntaxes produces exactly one seven-letter word: sextans. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in syntaxes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with essay, nasty and nests. For points, the strongest play is xysts — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in syntaxes produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, east and easy. For points, the strongest plays are sexy and xyst — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling syntaxes turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, any and ass. For points, the strongest plays are axe, sax, sex, and tax — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in syntaxes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ax and ex — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in syntaxes and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
syntaxes 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in syntaxes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for syntaxes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
syntaxes is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing syntaxes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is syntaxes, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from syntaxes 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 syntaxes produce 150 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.