legitimize needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 22 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
legitimize is the highest-scoring word from legitimize, worth 22 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in legitimize — and it is legitimize itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 22 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling legitimize produces exactly one seven-letter word: itemize. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling legitimize turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is gimlet, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legitimize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limit. For points, the strongest play is glitz — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in legitimize produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with geez, item, meet, melt, mile, and time. 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 legitimize turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get, leg, let, lie, lit, and met. For points, the strongest play is zig — worth 13 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 legitimize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in legitimize plus one additional letter.
legitimize 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 one sense for legitimize. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 22 points on a Scrabble board:
legitimize is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing legitimize unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is legitimize, worth 22 points in Scrabble, and no other word from legitimize 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 legitimize produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.