totalizer 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, 242 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
totalizer is the highest-scoring word from totalizer, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 242 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in totalizer — and it is totalizer 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 totalizer. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are totalize and triazole, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in totalizer produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are retotal, tertial, tortile, and triolet, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling totalizer turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lazier and toilet. For points, the strongest plays are lazier and zealot — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in totalizer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and later. For points, 6 words tie at 14 points, including azole, azote and zaire.
Rearranging the letters in totalizer produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with late, liar and oral. For points, 10 words tie at 13 points, including zero, izar and laze.
Unscrambling totalizer turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including azo, rez and tiz.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in totalizer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, it, or, and to. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in totalizer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in totalizer 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.
totalizer 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 two senses for totalizer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
totalizer is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing totalizer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is totalizer, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from totalizer 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 totalizer produce 242 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.