ostracize 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, 478 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ostracize is the highest-scoring word from ostracize, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 478 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in ostracize — and it is ostracize itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ostracize. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: craziest, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ostracize produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coaster and coziest. For points, the strongest plays are coziest, crazies, and czarist — each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ostracize turns up 72 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actors, caters and cozier. For points, 6 words tie at 17 points, including cozier, azotic and cozies.
There are 137 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ostracize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, cares and carts. For points, 6 words tie at 16 points, including azoic, cozes and cozie.
Rearranging the letters in ostracize produces 146 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs and arts. For points, the strongest plays are czar and zoic — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ostracize turns up 83 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and are. For points, the strongest play is coz — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ostracize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and is. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in ostracize plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ostracize 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.
ostracize 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 1-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 ostracize. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
ostracize is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ostracize unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ostracize, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ostracize 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 ostracize produce 478 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 72 six-letter words, 137 five-letter words, 146 four-letter words, 83 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.