metricizes 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, 283 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
metricizes is the highest-scoring word from metricizes, worth 23 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 283 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in metricizes — and it is metricizes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 23 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metricizes turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is metricize, worth 22 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metricizes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are itemizer and itemizes, each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in metricizes produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mercies. For points, the strongest play is itemize — worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metricizes turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cities, crimes, meters, and secret. For points, 5 words tie at 15 points, including resize, ritzes and seizer.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metricizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, crime and items. For points, the strongest play is mezes — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in metricizes produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ices, item and meet. For points, the strongest play is meze — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metricizes turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, its and met. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including rez, sez and tiz.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metricizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
metricizes 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 metricizes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 23 points on a Scrabble board:
metricizes is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing metricizes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is metricizes, worth 23 points in Scrabble, and no other word from metricizes 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 metricizes produce 283 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.