Hidden inside zonetimes sit monetizes and zonetimes, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 20 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 238 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
monetizes and zonetimes tie for the highest Scrabble score from zonetimes at 20 points. The top 10 of 238 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in zonetimes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and zonetimes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are monetizes and zonetimes, each worth 20 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 zonetimes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are monetize and zonetime, each 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 zonetimes produces 8 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 mestizo, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling zonetimes turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word 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 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in zonetimes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, meets, mints, moist, noise, notes, and seize. 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 zonetimes produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, item, meet, mine, mint, most, and nest. 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 zonetimes turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, men, met, net, not, one, and see. For points, the strongest plays are sez, tiz, zee, 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in zonetimes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, me, no, on, 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.
Swap a single tile in zonetimes 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.
zonetimes 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.
zonetimes is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing zonetimes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are monetizes and zonetimes, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from zonetimes 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 zonetimes produce 238 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.