wizard needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
wizard is the highest-scoring word from wizard, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in wizard — and it is wizard itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling wizard produces exactly one five-letter word: izard. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in wizard produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with draw. For points, the strongest play is izar — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling wizard turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, raw, rid, and war. For points, the strongest play is wiz — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wizard. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, aw, and id. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in wizard plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in wizard and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
wizard 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in wizard carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for wizard. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
wizard is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wizard unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is wizard, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from wizard 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 wizard produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 7 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.