Hidden inside capsize sit capizes and capsize, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 20 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
capizes and capsize tie for the highest Scrabble score from capsize at 20 points. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in capsize: one comes from rearranging its letters, and capsize itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are capizes and capsize, each worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling capsize turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apices and spicae, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in capsize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, space, and spice. For points, the strongest play is capiz — worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in capsize produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, cape, caps, case, epic, ices, and peas. For points, the strongest plays are spaz, zaps, zeps, and zips — each 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 capsize turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, cap, ice, pea, pie, sea, and sip. 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in capsize. 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.
Swap a single tile in capsize and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
capsize 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 2-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 capsize. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
capsize is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing capsize unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are capizes and capsize, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from capsize 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 capsize produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.