tantalize needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 152 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tantalize is the highest-scoring word from tantalize, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 152 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in tantalize — and it is tantalize itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tantalize produces exactly one seven-letter word: tetanal. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tantalize turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with talent. For points, the strongest play is zeatin — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tantalize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, latte, and title. For points, the strongest play is azine — 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 tantalize produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lane, late, lean, lent, line, nail, and nazi. For points, the strongest plays are azan, laze, nazi, zeal, zein, zeta, and zine — 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 tantalize turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, eat, let, lie, lit, and net. For points, the strongest plays are tiz, 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tantalize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in tantalize plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tantalize 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.
tantalize 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 tantalize. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
tantalize is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tantalize unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tantalize, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tantalize 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 tantalize produce 152 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 13 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.