Hidden inside crabs sit carbs and crabs, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
carbs and crabs tie for the highest Scrabble score from crabs at 9 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in crabs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and crabs itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crabs. For points, the strongest plays are carbs and crabs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in crabs produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bars, bras, cabs, cars, crab, and scar. For points, the strongest plays are cabs, carb, crab, and scab — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling crabs turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bar, bra, cab, and car. For points, the strongest play is cab — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crabs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are ab and ba — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in crabs and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
crabs is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for crabs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
crabs is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crabs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are carbs and crabs, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from crabs earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in crabs produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.