Hidden inside assize sit assize and seizas, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
assize and seizas tie for the highest Scrabble score from assize at 15 points. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in assize: one comes from rearranging its letters, and assize itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are assize and seizas, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sizes. For points, the strongest plays are seiza and sizes — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in assize produces 3 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seas and size. For points, the strongest play is size — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling assize turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass and sea. For points, the strongest plays are sez and zas — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. 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.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in assize plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in assize and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
assize 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in assize carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for assize. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
assize is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing assize unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are assize and seizas, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from assize 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 assize produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.