Unscramble LUTEINIZE and you have 114 words, LUTEINIZE itself among them: it scores 18 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, UTILIZE, TUILZIE and UNITIZE lead with 16 points. 9 letters: 5 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from LUTEINIZE by length: 1 with 9 letters, 4 with 7, 6 with 6, 19 with 5, 34 with 4, 36 with 3 and 14 with 2. None has 8 letters.
5 of 34 4-letter words you get when you unscramble LUTEINIZE tie at 13 points; none scores more. LINE, TEEN and UNIT will look familiar.
Keep every letter of LUTEINIZE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with LU · ending in ZE · all 9-letter words
The meaning of LUTEINIZE, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept LUTEINIZE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUTEINIZE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 114) | 88 | 114 | 77 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
26 of the 114 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: TUILZIE, EZINE, ULZIE, ZITE, LUZ, ZEL, ZE, LINTIE, LUITEN, UNTILE, ENLIT, INTIL and 14 more. 11 of the 114 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: ZINE, TIZ, ZEN, LENITE, INTEL, TUILE, TEIN, LUN, UNI, UTE and TE.
With one more tile, the letters of LUTEINIZE spell the words below.