initializes needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 324 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
initializes is the highest-scoring word from initializes, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 324 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in initializes — and it is initializes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in initializes produces 2 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is initialize, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling initializes turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is latinizes, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in initializes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are latinize, salinize, and sanitize, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in initializes produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laziest. For points, the strongest plays are laziest, zaniest, and zeatins — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling initializes turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, listen, and silent. For points, the strongest plays are azines, lazies, seizin, zanies, and zeatin — 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 77 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in initializes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, lanes, leans, least, lines, and nails. For points, the strongest plays are azine, lazes, nazis, seiza, tizes, zeals, zeins, zetas, zines, and zitis — 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 initializes produces 105 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, east, eats, lane, last, late, and lean. For points, the strongest plays are laze, nazi, size, zeal, zein, zens, zest, zeta, zine, zins, ziti, and zits — 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 initializes turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, eat, its, let, lie, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are sez, tiz, zas, zen, zin, and zit — 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in initializes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. 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.
initializes 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 2-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 initializes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
initializes is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing initializes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is initializes, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from initializes 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 initializes produce 324 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 77 five-letter words, 105 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.