tanzanite 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, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tanzanite is the highest-scoring word from tanzanite, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in tanzanite — and it is tanzanite itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tanzanite produces exactly one seven-letter word: tannate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tanzanite turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are zeatin and zenana, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tanzanite. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is azine, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tanzanite produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nazi, neat, nine, and tent. For points, 5 words tie at 13 points, including nazi, azan and zein.
Unscrambling tanzanite turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate and eat. For points, the strongest plays are tiz, zen, zin, and zit — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tanzanite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in tanzanite plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tanzanite 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.
tanzanite 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
tanzanite is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tanzanite unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tanzanite, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tanzanite 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 tanzanite produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.