legalizes needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 156 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
legalizes is the highest-scoring word from legalizes, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 156 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in legalizes — and it is legalizes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legalizes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gazelles and legalize, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in legalizes produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is gazelle, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling legalizes turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is glazes, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legalizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, lease, legal, and seize. For points, the strongest plays are gazes and glaze — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in legalizes produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ease and else. For points, the strongest plays are gaze, geez, zags, and zigs — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling legalizes turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, all and gal. For points, the strongest plays are zag and zig — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in legalizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in legalizes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in legalizes and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
legalizes 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 one sense for legalizes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
legalizes is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing legalizes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is legalizes, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from legalizes 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 legalizes produce 156 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.