Unscramble PERPLEXES to get 113 words. PERPLEXES itself is a real word: 20 points on a Scrabble board, 23 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are PERSPEX and PERPLEX, 18 points each. It has 9 letters, 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from PERPLEXES split into 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 8, 7 with 7, 9 with 6, 32 with 5, 34 with 4, 21 with 3 and 7 with 2.
EXPEL tops the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble PERPLEXES at 14 points; next come LEXES and REXES on 12. SLEEP, PEERS and REELS will look familiar.
PLEX and PREX share the top score of 13 among the 4-letter words in PERPLEXES. PEER, PREP and REEL are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of PERPLEXES for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 9-letter words: starting with PE · ending in ES · all 9-letter words
What PERPLEXES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept PERPLEXES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PERPLEXES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 113) | 91 | 113 | 83 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 22 of them: PEEPES, PEEPE, SPEELER, ELPEES, ELPEE, LEEPS, LERPS, LEEP, LEPS, LERP, PELS, LEESE and 10 more. Words With Friends* skips 8 of them: PERSPEX, PLEXES, PLEX, SEXER, PERPS, PERP, PERES and PERE.
This word takes every letter of PERPLEXES plus a single extra one.