Hidden inside winze sit winze and wizen, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 16 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
winze and wizen tie for the highest Scrabble score from winze at 17 points. The top 10 of 16 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in winze: one comes from rearranging its letters, and winze itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are winze and wizen, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in winze and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
winze 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.
winze is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing winze unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are winze and wizen, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from winze 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 winze produce 16 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.