itemizes needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
itemizes is the highest-scoring word from itemizes, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in itemizes — and it is itemizes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in itemizes 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 itemize, 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.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in itemizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, meets, seize, and times. For points, the strongest play is mezes — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in itemizes produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, meet, seem, site, size, stem, and ties. For points, the strongest play is meze — 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 itemizes turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, met, see, set, sit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are sez, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in itemizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in itemizes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in itemizes 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.
itemizes 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 itemizes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
itemizes is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing itemizes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is itemizes, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from itemizes 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 itemizes produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.