Hidden inside maxes sit exams and maxes, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
exams and maxes tie for the highest Scrabble score from maxes at 14 points. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in maxes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and maxes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: exams and maxes, worth 14 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in maxes produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exam and same. For points, the strongest play is exam — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling maxes turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with max, sea, and sex. For points, the strongest play is max — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maxes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, ex, and me. For points, the strongest plays are ax and ex — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 six-letter word can be made using all the letters in maxes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in maxes and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
maxes 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 maxes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
maxes is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing maxes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are exams and maxes, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from maxes 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 maxes produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.