Hidden inside crawls sit crawls and scrawl, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crawls and scrawl tie for the highest Scrabble score from crawls at 11 points. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in crawls: one comes from rearranging its letters, and crawls itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crawls. For points, the strongest plays are crawls and scrawl — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crawls. If a familiar word is all you need, start with claws and crawl. For points, the strongest plays are claws, crawl, and craws — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crawls produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cars, claw and laws. For points, the strongest plays are caws, claw, and craw — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling crawls turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with car, law and raw. For points, the strongest play is caw — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in crawls plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in crawls 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.
crawls 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 eight senses for crawls. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
crawls is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crawls unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are crawls and scrawl, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from crawls 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 crawls produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.