Unscramble PENALIZE and you have 145 words, PENALIZE itself among them: it scores 19 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. 8 letters: 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
Looking for aeeilnpz, lazepine, alpineze, zeeplain, planeize, peelzina, zepaline, eielazpn or planezie? They use the same letters as PENALIZE, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from PENALIZE split into 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 5 with 6, 22 with 5, 54 with 4, 43 with 3 and 18 with 2.
The best of the 4-letter words from PENALIZE is PIZE, 15 points; LAZE and NAZE on 13 follow. LINE, PLAN and PAIN are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of PENALIZE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with PE · ending in ZE · all 8-letter words
What PENALIZE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. PENALIZE is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PENALIZE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 145) | 110 | 145 | 103 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
35 of the 145 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PEAZE, PEIZE, PIZE, AIZLE, EZINE, LEAZE, NAZE, ZILA, ZEA, ZEL, ZE, ALEPINE and 23 more. 7 of the 145 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: ZEP, ZINE, ZEN, ZA, LIPA, LIPE and PALI.
Each word below uses all the letters of PENALIZE and one more.