cranks needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cranks is the highest-scoring word from cranks, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in cranks — and it is cranks itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cranks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crank, racks, and snack. For points, the strongest plays are carks, crank, racks, and snack — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cranks produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cans, cars and rack. For points, the strongest plays are cark, cask, rack, and sack — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in cranks plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cranks and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
cranks 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 ten senses for cranks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
cranks is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cranks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cranks, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cranks 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 cranks produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 12 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.