magazine needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 112 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
magazine is the highest-scoring word from magazine, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 112 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in magazine — and it is magazine itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling magazine produces exactly one seven-letter word: amazing. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling magazine turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with manage. For points, the strongest play is mazing — worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in magazine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, amaze, and image. For points, the strongest plays are amaze, maize, mizen, nizam, and zamia — each 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 magazine produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, gain, game, main, mean, mine, and name. For points, the strongest play is maze — 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 magazine turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, man, men, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are zag and zig — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in magazine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, in, and me. 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in magazine plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in magazine 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.
magazine 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 six senses for magazine. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
magazine is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing magazine unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is magazine, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from magazine 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 magazine produce 112 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.