crankcase needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 192 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crankcase is the highest-scoring word from crankcase, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 192 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in crankcase — and it is crankcase itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crankcase produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cancers. For points, the strongest play is caracks — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling crankcase turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cancer, cracks, and cranks. For points, the strongest plays are carack and cracks — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crankcase. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, cakes and cares. For points, the strongest play is crack — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crankcase produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, cake and cans. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including cake, neck and rack.
Unscrambling crankcase turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ask and can. For points, the strongest play is ack — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crankcase. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and as. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in crankcase plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in crankcase and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
crankcase 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 3-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 crankcase. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
crankcase is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crankcase unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is crankcase, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from crankcase 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 crankcase produce 192 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.