antagonize needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 221 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antagonize is the highest-scoring word from antagonize, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 221 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in antagonize — and it is antagonize itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antagonize. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agnation and negation, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in antagonize produces 13 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agatize, agonize, tzigane, and zingano, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling antagonize turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating and nation. For points, the strongest plays are agnize and zoning — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antagonize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, agent, giant, and tango. For points, the strongest play is agaze — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in antagonize produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, gate, goat, gone, into, nazi, and neat. For points, the strongest plays are gaze and zing — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling antagonize turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ant, ate, eat, ego, and get. For points, the strongest plays are zag and zig — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in antagonize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, go, in, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in antagonize plus one additional letter.
antagonize 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for antagonize. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
antagonize is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing antagonize unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is antagonize, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from antagonize 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 antagonize produce 221 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.