Hidden inside waxed sit dewax and waxed, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 25 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dewax and waxed tie for the highest Scrabble score from waxed at 16 points. The top 10 of 25 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in waxed: one comes from rearranging its letters, and waxed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with waxed. For points, the strongest plays are dewax and waxed — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in waxed produces 3 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is axed, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling waxed turns up 10 three-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: wax, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waxed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, aw, ew, ex, and we. 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.
Swap a single tile in waxed 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.
waxed 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 waxed carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for waxed. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
waxed is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing waxed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dewax and waxed, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from waxed 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 waxed produce 25 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.