Unscramble ORIXA and you have 17 words, ORIXA itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. ORIXA has 1 anagram here, IXORA, scoring 12 like ORIXA itself. 5 letters: 3 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Counting the words from ORIXA by length: 2 with 5 letters, 7 with 3 and 8 with 2. None has 4 letters.
Keep every letter of ORIXA but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with OR · ending in XA · all 5-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with IXORA (12 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: ORIXA is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORIXA itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 17) | 15 | 17 | 12 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
3 of the 17 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: ARO, RAI and OI. 2 of the 17 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ORIXA and IO.
With one more tile, the letters of ORIXA spell the words below.