customize needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 22 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 221 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
customize is the highest-scoring word from customize, worth 22 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 221 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in customize — and it is customize itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 22 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in customize produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with costume and coziest. For points, the strongest play is zoecium — worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling customize turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coitus, cuties, and sitcom. For points, the strongest play is cozies — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in customize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with comes, cutie and items. For points, the strongest plays are cozes, cozie, and cuzes — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in customize produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with come, cost and cues. For points, the strongest play is zoic — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling customize turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cut and ice. For points, the strongest plays are coz and cuz — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in customize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it and me. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including me, um and em.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in customize plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in customize 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.
customize 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 customize. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 22 points on a Scrabble board:
customize is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing customize unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is customize, worth 22 points in Scrabble, and no other word from customize 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 customize produce 221 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.