Hidden inside criers sit criers and ricers, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
criers and ricers tie for the highest Scrabble score from criers at 8 points. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in criers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and criers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are criers and ricers, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in criers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries and rices. For points, the strongest plays are cires, crier, cries, ricer, and rices — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in criers produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ices, rice, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are cire, cris, ices, recs, rice, and sice — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling criers turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice and sir. For points, the strongest plays are cis, ice, rec, sec, and sic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in criers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, is, re, and si — each worth 2 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 criers 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.
criers 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 1-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 criers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
criers is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing criers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are criers and ricers, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from criers 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 criers produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.