What PERPLEX Means
- verb: be a mystery or bewildering to“This beats me!”
- verb: make more complicated“There was a new development that complicated the matter”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
PERPLEX is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 18 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 E1 R1 P3 L1 E1 X8.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 68 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In PERPLEX
38 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
5 letter words (3)
4 letter words (16)
3 letter words (13)
2 letter words (6)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.