Hidden inside crawlers sit crawlers and scrawler, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 169 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crawlers and scrawler tie for the highest Scrabble score from crawlers at 13 points. The top 10 of 169 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in crawlers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and crawlers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crawlers and scrawler, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crawlers produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clawers and crawler, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling crawlers turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clears and crawls. For points, the strongest plays are clawer, crawls, and scrawl — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crawlers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, claws and clear. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including claws, crawl and crews.
Rearranging the letters in crawlers produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cars and case. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including claw, crew and caws.
Unscrambling crawlers turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, car and ear. For points, the strongest play is caw — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crawlers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, aw, ew, and we. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in crawlers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in crawlers and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
crawlers 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 three senses for crawlers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
crawlers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crawlers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are crawlers and scrawler, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from crawlers 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 crawlers produce 169 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.