temporize needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 22 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 181 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
temporize is the highest-scoring word from temporize, worth 22 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 181 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in temporize — and it is temporize itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 22 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling temporize produces exactly one eight-letter word: poetizer. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in temporize produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emptier. For points, the strongest play is emprize — worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling temporize turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empire, meteor, permit, and remote. For points, the strongest play is potzer — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in temporize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meter, prime, and prize. For points, the strongest plays are piezo and prize — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in temporize produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, meet, more, poem, poet, prom, and riot. For points, the strongest plays are meze and prez — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling temporize turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met, mop, pee, per, pet, pie, and pit. For points, the strongest plays are zep and zip — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in temporize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with it, me, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, om, op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in temporize plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in temporize 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.
temporize 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for temporize. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 22 points on a Scrabble board:
temporize is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing temporize unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is temporize, worth 22 points in Scrabble, and no other word from temporize 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 temporize produce 181 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.