metalizes needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 324 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
metalizes is the highest-scoring word from metalizes, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 324 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in metalizes — and it is metalizes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metalizes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is metalize, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in metalizes produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laziest. For points, the strongest plays are maziest and mestiza — each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metalizes turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emails, lamest, and metals. For points, the strongest play is maizes — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 82 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metalizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, email and items. For points, the strongest plays are maize, mazes, mezes, and smaze — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in metalizes produces 119 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, lame and last. For points, the strongest plays are maze and meze — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metalizes turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ate and eat. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including sez, tiz and zas.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metalizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in metalizes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in metalizes and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
metalizes 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 2-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 metalizes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
metalizes is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing metalizes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is metalizes, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from metalizes 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 metalizes produce 324 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 82 five-letter words, 119 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.