tantalizes needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 413 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tantalizes is the highest-scoring word from tantalizes, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 413 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in tantalizes — and it is tantalizes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tantalizes 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 tantalize, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tantalizes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is nasalize, 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 tantalizes produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laziest and talents. 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 tantalizes turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, latest, lattes, listen, silent, talent, and titles. For points, the strongest plays are ansatz, azines, lazies, stanza, 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 108 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tantalizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, lanes, latte, leans, least, and lines. For points, the strongest plays are azans, azine, lazes, nazis, seiza, tizes, zeals, zeins, zetas, and zines — 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 tantalizes produces 125 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 azan, laze, nazi, size, zeal, zein, zens, zest, zeta, zine, zins, 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 tantalizes turns up 68 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tantalizes. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in tantalizes plus one additional letter.
tantalizes 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 tantalizes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
tantalizes is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tantalizes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tantalizes, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tantalizes 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 tantalizes produce 413 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 108 five-letter words, 125 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.