What SIMPLEX Means
- adjective: allowing communication in only one direction at a time, or in telegraphy allowing only one message over a line at a time“simplex system”
- adjective: having only one part or element“a simplex word has no affixes and is not part of a compound, like ‘boy’ compared with ‘boyish’ or ‘house’ compared with ‘houseboat’”
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
SIMPLEX is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 18 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 I1 M3 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 SIMPLEX
96 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.
6 letter words (4)
5 letter words (18)
4 letter words (33)
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3 letter words (29)
2 letter words (12)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.