characterize needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 28 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 346 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
characterize is the highest-scoring word from characterize, worth 28 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 346 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in characterize — and it is characterize itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 28 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling characterize produces exactly one ten-letter word: catechizer. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 26 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling characterize turns up 5 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with character. For points, the strongest play is catechize — worth 25 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in characterize. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is archaize, worth 22 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in characterize produces 35 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caterer, cheater, crazier, and teacher. For points, the strongest play is crazier — worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling characterize turns up 54 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with career, create, either, rather, retire, and richer. For points, the strongest plays are hazier and zither — each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 89 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in characterize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catch, cater, chair, chart, cheat, cheer, and earth. For points, the strongest plays are hazer and hertz — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in characterize produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, care, cart, chat, each, hair, and hate. For points, the strongest plays are cazh and chez — each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling characterize turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, act, aha, air, are, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are rez, tiz, zee, and zit — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in characterize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at, eh, ha, he, hi, and it. 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.
2 thirteen-letter words can be made using all the letters in characterize plus one additional letter.
characterize 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 characterize. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 28 points on a Scrabble board:
characterize is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing characterize unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is characterize, worth 28 points in Scrabble, and no other word from characterize 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 characterize produce 346 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 1 ten-letter word, 5 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 35 seven-letter words, 54 six-letter words, 89 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.