idolizes needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 118 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
idolizes is the highest-scoring word from idolizes, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 118 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in idolizes — and it is idolizes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in idolizes produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are idolize and iodizes, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling idolizes turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is iodize, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in idolizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, slide, and solid. For points, the strongest plays are dozes and sized — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in idolizes produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies and does. For points, the strongest plays are doze and zeds — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling idolizes turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids and led. For points, the strongest play is zed — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in idolizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, and so. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including do, id and de.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in idolizes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in idolizes and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
idolizes 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 one sense for idolizes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
idolizes is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing idolizes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is idolizes, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from idolizes 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 idolizes produce 118 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.