polemizes 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, 191 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
polemizes is the highest-scoring word from polemizes, worth 22 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 191 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in polemizes — and it is polemizes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 22 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling polemizes produces exactly one eight-letter word: polemize. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 21 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling polemizes produces exactly one seven-letter word: episome. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling polemizes turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with simple. For points, the strongest plays are impels, impose, semple, and simple — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polemizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limos, miles and moles. For points, the strongest plays are mezes and piezo — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in polemizes produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, lies and limo. For points, the strongest plays are meze, zeps, and zips — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling polemizes turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, lip and mop. For points, the strongest plays are zep and zip — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polemizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, me, and so. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
Swap a single tile in polemizes 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.
polemizes 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for polemizes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 22 points on a Scrabble board:
polemizes is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing polemizes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is polemizes, worth 22 points in Scrabble, and no other word from polemizes 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 polemizes produce 191 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 10 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.