Useful when your rack is short on E but you still need to cash a 10-point Z.
JAZZY ranks highly because it plays 33 tile points before board multipliers, converts the difficult J and Z into points and covers 5 squares of board space.
Trade-off: it repeats a letter.
Bright and showy.
QUARTZ ranks highly because it plays 24 tile points before board multipliers, converts the difficult Q and Z into points and covers 6 squares of board space.
A hard crystalline mineral.
FIZZ ranks highly because it plays 25 tile points before board multipliers and converts the difficult Z into points.
Trade-off: it repeats a letter.
To make a hissing sound.
CRAZY ranks highly because it plays 19 tile points before board multipliers, converts the difficult Z into points and covers 5 squares of board space.
Wildly unreasonable.
COZY ranks highly because it plays 18 tile points before board multipliers, converts the difficult Z into points and uses 4 distinct letters with no repeats.
Comfortable and warm.
ZONAL ranks highly because it plays 14 tile points before board multipliers, converts the difficult Z into points and covers 5 squares of board space.
Relating to zones.
Results are ordered by strategic score rather than alphabetically, so the plays most worth making appear first. Each card shows the tile score, the word length and why the word ranks where it does. Save a word to revisit it later, or open a solver to filter against the exact letters on your rack.
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