metricize needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 22 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
metricize is the highest-scoring word from metricize, worth 22 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in metricize — and it is metricize itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 22 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metricize. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is itemizer, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in metricize produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is itemize, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metricize turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cermet, emetic, and metric, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metricize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crime and meter. For points, the strongest plays are creme and crime — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in metricize produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, meet and mice. For points, the strongest play is meze — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metricize turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, met, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are rez, tiz, zee, and zit — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metricize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with it and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in metricize plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in metricize 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.
metricize 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 two senses for metricize. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 22 points on a Scrabble board:
metricize is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing metricize unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is metricize, worth 22 points in Scrabble, and no other word from metricize 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 metricize produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.