Unscramble MINIMIZATION to get 143 words. MINIMIZATION itself is a real word: 25 points on a Scrabble board, 29 in Words With Friends. MATZO, MOTZA and NIZAM are the best of the shorter words, at 16 points. The 12 letters split into 6 vowels and 6 consonants.
M34I1N12I1M34I1Z10A1T1I1O1N12
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from MINIMIZATION by length: 1 with 12 letters, 1 with 9, 12 with 6, 21 with 5, 43 with 4, 44 with 3 and 21 with 2. None has 11, 10 or 8 letters.
There is a single one of the 9-letter words in MINIMIZATION: MINIATION, 11 points.
Of the 43 4-letter words from MINIMIZATION, 5 score 13 points, the group's best. MAIN, ANTI and MINI are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of MINIMIZATION but one, change that one, and you get:
More 12-letter words: starting with MI · ending in ON · all 12-letter words
What MINIMIZATION means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept MINIMIZATION, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| MINIMIZATION itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 143) | 112 | 143 | 100 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 31 of them: MOTZA, MIZ, MOZ, ZATI, MINIATION, ZO, AMMON, IMMIT, MONTAN, MANTO, TAMIN, TIMON and 19 more. Words With Friends* skips 12 of them: ZONA, TIZ, ZA, AMNIO, MAM, MANI, MOI, OMA, NANO, NONI, TIAN and OI.
Each word below uses all the letters of MINIMIZATION and one more.