maximizing needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 31 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 69 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
maximizing is the highest-scoring word from maximizing, worth 31 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 69 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in maximizing — and it is maximizing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 31 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling maximizing produces exactly one eight-letter word: immixing. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 20 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in maximizing produces 3 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.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maximizing. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are immix, maxim, and nizam, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in maximizing produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, main, and nazi. For points, the strongest play is zing — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling maximizing turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, man and max. For points, the strongest play is zax — worth 19 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in maximizing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, and in. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
maximizing 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 maximizing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 31 points on a Scrabble board:
maximizing is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing maximizing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is maximizing, worth 31 points in Scrabble, and no other word from maximizing 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 maximizing produce 69 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.