Hidden inside zanies sit azines and zanies, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
azines and zanies tie for the highest Scrabble score from zanies at 15 points. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in zanies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and zanies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are azines and zanies, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in zanies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nazis. For points, the strongest plays are azine, nazis, seiza, zeins, and zines — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in zanies produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nazi, sane, and size. For points, the strongest plays are nazi, size, zein, zens, zine, and zins — each 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 zanies turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sea and sin. For points, the strongest plays are sez, zas, zen, and zin — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in zanies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. 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.
Swap a single tile in zanies 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.
zanies 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 four senses for zanies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
zanies is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing zanies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are azines and zanies, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from zanies 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 zanies produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.