videotex needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
videotex is the highest-scoring word from videotex, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in videotex — and it is videotex itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in videotex. If a familiar word is all you need, start with video and voted. For points, the strongest play is vexed — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in videotex produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diet, dive and dove. For points, the strongest play is vext — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling videotex turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot and eve. For points, the strongest plays are vex and vox — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in videotex. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ex and id. For points, the strongest plays are ex, ox, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in videotex plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in videotex 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.
videotex 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.
videotex is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing videotex unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is videotex, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from videotex 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 videotex produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.