Hidden inside crashes sit chasers, crashes, and eschars, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chasers, crashes, and eschars tie for the highest Scrabble score from crashes at 12 points. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in crashes: two come from rearranging its letters, and crashes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crashes. For points, the strongest plays are chasers, crashes, and eschars — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling crashes turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cashes, chases, rashes, scares, search, and shares. For points, the strongest plays are arches, cashes, chares, chaser, chases, chasse, eschar, and search — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crashes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, cares, cases, chase, chess, crash, and hears. For points, the strongest plays are aches, chare, chars, chase, chess, crash, and reach — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in crashes produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cars, case, cash, each, ears, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are ache, arch, cash, char, and each — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling crashes turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ash, ass, car, ear, era, and has. For points, the strongest plays are ahs, ash, hae, has, her, hes, rah, sha, and she — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crashes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, eh, ha, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, and sh — each worth 5 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 crashes and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
crashes 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in crashes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record eighteen senses for crashes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
crashes is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crashes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chasers, crashes, and eschars, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from crashes 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 crashes produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.