quartz needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 24 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 16 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
quartz is the highest-scoring word from quartz, worth 24 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 16 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in quartz — and it is quartz itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 24 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling quartz produces exactly one five-letter word: quart. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling quartz produces exactly one four-letter word: tzar. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling quartz turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art and rat. For points, the strongest plays are qat and qua — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in quartz. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in quartz 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.
quartz 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 quartz. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 24 points on a Scrabble board:
quartz is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing quartz unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is quartz, worth 24 points in Scrabble, and no other word from quartz 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 quartz produce 16 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 1 four-letter word, 8 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.