solarizes needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 312 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
solarizes is the highest-scoring word from solarizes, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 312 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in solarizes — and it is solarizes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in solarizes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is solarize, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in solarizes produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sailors. For points, the strongest plays are seizors and sleazos — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling solarizes turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, lasers and lazier. For points, 11 words tie at 15 points, including lazier, assize and azoles.
There are 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in solarizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, laser and liars. For points, 15 words tie at 14 points, including sizes, azole and izars.
Rearranging the letters in solarizes produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, also and less. For points, 8 words tie at 13 points, including size, zero and laze.
Unscrambling solarizes turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and ass. 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 solarizes. 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.
Swap a single tile in solarizes 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.
solarizes 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 solarizes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
solarizes is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing solarizes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is solarizes, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from solarizes 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 solarizes produce 312 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.