Hidden inside modernizes sit modernizes and sermonized, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 22 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 526 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
modernizes and sermonized tie for the highest Scrabble score from modernizes at 22 points. The top 10 of 526 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in modernizes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and modernizes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are modernizes and sermonized, each worth 22 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling modernizes turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are demonizes and modernize, each worth 21 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernizes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is demonize, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in modernizes produces 37 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reminds. For points, the strongest plays are resized and rezoned — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling modernizes turns up 95 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demons, denies, desire, diners, dozens, modern, and remind. For points, the strongest play is mizens — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 133 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, demon, dimes, diner, dines, dorms, and dozen. For points, the strongest plays are mezes and mizen — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in modernizes produces 140 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mind, mine, mode, more, need, nerd, and nose. For points, the strongest play is meze — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling modernizes turns up 80 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ids, men, nor, one, and red. For points, the strongest play is zed — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, in, is, me, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in modernizes plus one additional letter.
modernizes 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 modernizes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 22 points on a Scrabble board:
modernizes is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing modernizes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are modernizes and sermonized, worth 22 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from modernizes 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 modernizes produce 526 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 37 seven-letter words, 95 six-letter words, 133 five-letter words, 140 four-letter words, 80 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.