bastardize needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 22 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 578 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bastardize is the highest-scoring word from bastardize, worth 22 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 578 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in bastardize — and it is bastardize itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 22 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastardize. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is arabized, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bastardize produces 41 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bastard. For points, the strongest plays are arabize, braizes, zarebas, and zaribas — each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bastardize turns up 95 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barest, beards and breads. For points, the strongest play is brazed — worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 165 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastardize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, areas and aside. For points, 8 words tie at 16 points, including baiza, baize and bazar.
Rearranging the letters in bastardize produces 157 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs and area. For points, the strongest play is bize — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bastardize turns up 86 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, the strongest play is biz — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bastardize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in bastardize plus one additional letter.
bastardize 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 two senses for bastardize. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 22 points on a Scrabble board:
bastardize is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bastardize unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bastardize, worth 22 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bastardize 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 bastardize produce 578 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 41 seven-letter words, 95 six-letter words, 165 five-letter words, 157 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.