patronize needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 372 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
patronize is the highest-scoring word from patronize, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 372 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in patronize — and it is patronize itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patronize. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is topazine, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in patronize produces 11 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are atropin, operant, painter and 8 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling patronize turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parent and pirate. For points, the strongest plays are epizoa, panzer, patzer, and potzer — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 78 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patronize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opera, paint and piano. For points, the strongest plays are piezo, prize, and topaz — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in patronize produces 122 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nazi, near and neat. For points, the strongest play is prez — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling patronize turns up 87 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and ape. For points, the strongest plays are zap, zep, and zip — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in patronize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and in. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in patronize plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in patronize 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.
patronize 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 four senses for patronize. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
patronize is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing patronize unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is patronize, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from patronize 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 patronize produce 372 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 78 five-letter words, 122 four-letter words, 87 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.