Unscramble RURALIZE and you have 103 words, RURALIZE itself among them: it scores 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. The 8 letters split into 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
R1U12R1A1L12I1Z10E1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from RURALIZE split into 1 with 8 letters, 6 with 6, 19 with 5, 36 with 4, 28 with 3 and 13 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Among 36 4-letter words from RURALIZE, the top score is 13, reached by 7. REAL, RULE and RARE are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of RURALIZE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with RU · ending in ZE · all 8-letter words
RURALIZE first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. RURALIZE 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| RURALIZE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 103) | 76 | 103 | 72 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: RAZURE, AIZLE, ULZIE, RIZA, ZARI, ZILA, LUZ, RIZ, ZEA, ZEL, ZE, RERAIL and 15 more, 27 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: REZ, ZA, ARIE and RAI, 4 in all.
These 2 words take every letter of RURALIZE plus a single extra one.