ostracizes 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, 653 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ostracizes is the highest-scoring word from ostracizes, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 653 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in ostracizes — and it is ostracizes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ostracizes 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 ostracize, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ostracizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coasters, craziest, and scariest. For points, the strongest plays are craziest and czarists — each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ostracizes produces 46 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actress, coaster and coziest. For points, the strongest plays are coziest, crazies, and czarist — each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ostracizes turns up 133 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with across, actors and caters. For points, 6 words tie at 17 points, including cozier, azotic and cozies.
There are 189 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ostracizes. 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 ostracizes produces 164 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 ostracizes turns up 87 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 ostracizes. 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.
ostracizes 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 ostracizes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
ostracizes is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ostracizes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ostracizes, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ostracizes 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 ostracizes produce 653 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 46 seven-letter words, 133 six-letter words, 189 five-letter words, 164 four-letter words, 87 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.