Unscramble LAXES and you have 37 words, LAXES itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 12 points: AXELS and AXLES. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from LAXES by length: 3 with 5 letters, 10 with 4, 15 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of LAXES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with LA · ending in ES · all 5-letter words
What LAXES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept LAXES, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAXES itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 37) | 33 | 37 | 32 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SAXE, SLAE, EAS and EA, 4 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: LAXES.
These 5 words take every letter of LAXES plus a single extra one.