italicize needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
italicize is the highest-scoring word from italicize, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in italicize — and it is italicize itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in italicize produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is laicize, 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 italicize turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are atelic, elicit, and italic, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in italicize. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ceili, cilia, cleat, eclat, ileac, iliac, licit, telic, and tical, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in italicize produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with late, lice, tail, and tale. For points, the strongest plays are laze, zeal, zeta, and ziti — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling italicize turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ate, cat, eat, ice, let, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are tiz 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in italicize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at 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 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in italicize plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in italicize 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.
italicize 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 italicize. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
italicize is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing italicize unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is italicize, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from italicize 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 italicize produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.