apologize needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 136 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apologize is the highest-scoring word from apologize, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 136 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in apologize — and it is apologize itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling apologize produces exactly one seven-letter word: zooglea. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling apologize turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are epizoa, pozole, and zipola, 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 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apologize. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is piezo, 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 apologize produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with goal, leap, page, pile, pole, and pool. For points, the strongest play is gaze — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling apologize turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ape, ego, gal, gap, and goo. For points, the strongest plays are zap, zep, and zip — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in apologize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go. 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in apologize plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in apologize 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.
apologize 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 apologize. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
apologize is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing apologize unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is apologize, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from apologize 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 apologize produce 136 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.