transfixes needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 624 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
transfixes is the highest-scoring word from transfixes, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 624 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in transfixes — and it is transfixes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transfixes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is transfix, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in transfixes produces 51 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fairest, fitness, and nastier. For points, the strongest plays are antefix and fixates — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling transfixes turns up 110 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exists, faster and finest. For points, the strongest plays are fixate and fixers — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 183 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transfixes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, earns and exist. For points, the strongest plays are faxes, fixer, fixes, and refix — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in transfixes produces 151 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants and arts. For points, the strongest play is fixt — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling transfixes turns up 91 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and are. For points, the strongest plays are fax and fix — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transfixes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
transfixes 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 1-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 transfixes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
transfixes is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing transfixes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is transfixes, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from transfixes 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 transfixes produce 624 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 10 eight-letter words, 51 seven-letter words, 110 six-letter words, 183 five-letter words, 151 four-letter words, 91 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.