Hidden inside crescendo sit conceders and crescendo, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 267 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
conceders and crescendo tie for the highest Scrabble score from crescendo at 14 points. The top 10 of 267 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in crescendo: one comes from rearranging its letters, and crescendo itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are conceders and crescendo, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crescendo. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are conceder and concedes, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in crescendo produces 14 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 coerced, concede, and sconced, 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 crescendo turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scored, screen, second, and soccer. For points, the strongest plays are codecs and recced — 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 70 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crescendo. If a familiar word is all you need, start with codes, cones, cords, cores, corns, deers, and needs. For points, the strongest play is codec — 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 crescendo produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cone, cons, cord, core, corn, and deer. For points, the strongest play is croc — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling crescendo turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, end, nor, one, red, rod, and see. For points, the strongest plays are cod and doc — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crescendo. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in crescendo plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in crescendo 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.
crescendo 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 three senses for crescendo. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
crescendo is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crescendo unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are conceders and crescendo, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from crescendo 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 crescendo produce 267 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 70 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.