metabolize needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 23 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 291 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
metabolize is the highest-scoring word from metabolize, worth 23 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 291 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in metabolize — and it is metabolize itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 23 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metabolize produces exactly one eight-letter word: metalize. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in metabolize produces 8 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 emblaze and imblaze, each worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metabolize turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with omelet and zombie. For points, the strongest play is zombie — worth 19 points in Scrabble.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metabolize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blame, email, limbo, metal, motel, table, and zombi. For points, the strongest play is zombi — worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in metabolize produces 106 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, atom, bail, bait, beam, beat, and belt. For points, the strongest plays are bize, maze, and meze — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metabolize turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ate, bam, bat, bee, bet, and bit. For points, the strongest play is biz — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metabolize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, be, it, me, and to. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in metabolize plus one additional letter.
metabolize 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 metabolize. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 23 points on a Scrabble board:
metabolize is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing metabolize unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is metabolize, worth 23 points in Scrabble, and no other word from metabolize 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 metabolize produce 291 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 106 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.