sermonize 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, 245 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sermonize is the highest-scoring word from sermonize, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 245 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in sermonize — and it is sermonize itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sermonize. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is sierozem, 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 sermonize produces 4 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 rezones, 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 sermonize turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with senior. For points, the strongest play is mizens — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sermonize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with irons, minor, noise, risen, seize, semen, and siren. For points, the strongest plays are mezes and mizen — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sermonize produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with iron, mine, more, nose, ones, rise, and rose. For points, the strongest play is meze — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sermonize turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, nor, one, see, sin, sir, and son. For points, the strongest plays are rez, sez, 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sermonize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, me, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in sermonize plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sermonize 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.
sermonize 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 one sense for sermonize. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
sermonize is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sermonize unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sermonize, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sermonize 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 sermonize produce 245 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.