prized needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble PIDREZ, PERIDZ or PERDIZ and you get the same 6 letters as PRIZED: so the words from PRIZED listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
prized is the highest-scoring word from prized, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in prized — and it is prized itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in prized produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drip and ride. For points, the strongest play is prez — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling prized turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip and per. For points, the strongest plays are zep and zip — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in prized and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
prized 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.
prized is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing prized unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is prized, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from prized 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 prized produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.