channelize needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 24 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 155 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
channelize is the highest-scoring word from channelize, worth 24 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 155 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in channelize — and it is channelize itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 24 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in channelize produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with channel. For points, the strongest plays are channel, elenchi, enchain, and enhance — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling channelize turns up 14 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is zechin, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in channelize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, chain, chile, clean, and niece. For points, the strongest play is zilch — worth 19 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in channelize produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chin, each, hail, heal, heel, inch, and lane. For points, the strongest plays are cazh and chez — each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling channelize turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with can, hen, ice, lie, and nah. For points, the strongest plays are zee, 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in channelize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, eh, ha, he, hi, and in. 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in channelize plus one additional letter.
channelize 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 3-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 channelize. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 24 points on a Scrabble board:
channelize is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing channelize unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is channelize, worth 24 points in Scrabble, and no other word from channelize 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 channelize produce 155 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.