raze needs no unscrambling at all — the four-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 10 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
raze is the highest-scoring word from raze, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 10 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one four-letter word uses the letters in raze — and it is raze itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling raze turns up 4 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, and era. For points, the strongest play is rez — 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 raze. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word 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 raze and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
raze 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in raze carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for raze. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
raze is the only four-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing raze unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is raze, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from raze 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 raze produce 10 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 four-letter word, 4 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.