Hidden inside amortizes sit amortizes and atomizers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 20 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 508 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
amortizes and atomizers tie for the highest Scrabble score from amortizes at 20 points. The top 10 of 508 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in amortizes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and amortizes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amortizes and atomizers, each worth 20 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amortizes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amortize, atomizer, and atomizes, each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in amortizes produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maestri, maestro, and moister. For points, the strongest plays are atomize, maziest, mestiza, mestizo, and tzarism — each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling amortizes turns up 62 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies and master. For points, the strongest plays are maizes, matzos, mazers, mazier, mirzas, and zirams — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 140 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amortizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms, items, mates, meats, moist, raise, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are maize, matzo, mazer, mazes, mirza, smaze, and ziram — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in amortizes produces 159 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, arms, arts, atom, mate, and meat. For points, the strongest play is maze — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling amortizes turns up 90 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, are, arm, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are azo, rez, sez, tiz, zas, zit, and zoa — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amortizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, is, it, me, and or. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in amortizes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in amortizes and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
amortizes is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for amortizes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
amortizes is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing amortizes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are amortizes and atomizers, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from amortizes earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in amortizes produce 508 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 62 six-letter words, 140 five-letter words, 159 four-letter words, 90 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.