waxiness 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, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
waxiness is the highest-scoring word from waxiness, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in waxiness — and it is waxiness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling waxiness turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are axises and xenias, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waxiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with swans, waxes, and wines. For points, the strongest plays are waxen and waxes — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in waxiness produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with news, sane and seas. For points, the strongest plays are axes, axis, and nixe — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling waxiness turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, new and saw. For points, the strongest play is wax — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waxiness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and aw. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in waxiness 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.
waxiness 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 one sense for waxiness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
waxiness is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing waxiness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is waxiness, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from waxiness 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 waxiness produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.