maximising 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, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
maximising is the highest-scoring word from maximising, worth 22 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in maximising — and it is maximising itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 22 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling maximising produces exactly one nine-letter word: misaiming. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maximising. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is immixing, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in maximising produces 5 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 maximin and minimax, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling maximising turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aiming, minima, and mixing. For points, the strongest play is maxims — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maximising. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains. For points, the strongest plays are immix and maxim — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in maximising produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, gain and main. For points, the strongest plays are maxi and minx — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling maximising turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, gas and man. For points, the strongest plays are max and mix — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maximising. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ax and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
maximising 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 4-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 maximising. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 22 points on a Scrabble board:
maximising is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing maximising unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is maximising, worth 22 points in Scrabble, and no other word from maximising 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 maximising produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.