metallizes needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 385 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
metallizes is the highest-scoring word from metallizes, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 385 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in metallizes — and it is metallizes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metallizes turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are metalizes and metallize, each worth 20 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metallizes. 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 metallizes produces 14 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 metallizes turns up 41 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 100 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metallizes. 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 metallizes produces 134 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 metallizes turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, all and ate. 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 metallizes. 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.
metallizes 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 metallizes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
metallizes is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing metallizes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is metallizes, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from metallizes 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 metallizes produce 385 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 100 five-letter words, 134 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.