solarize needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 225 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
solarize is the highest-scoring word from solarize, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 225 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in solarize — and it is solarize itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling solarize turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lazier, sailor, and serial. For points, 7 words tie at 15 points, including lazier, azoles and lazies.
There are 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in solarize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, laser and liars. For points, 14 words tie at 14 points, including azole, izars and lazes.
Rearranging the letters in solarize produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, also and ears. For points, 8 words tie at 13 points, including size, zero and izar.
Unscrambling solarize turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and ear. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including azo, rez and sez.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in solarize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, is, or, and so. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
7 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in solarize plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in solarize and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
solarize 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 four senses for solarize. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
solarize is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing solarize unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is solarize, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from solarize 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 solarize produce 225 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 19 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.