criminals needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 255 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
criminals is the highest-scoring word from criminals, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 255 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in criminals — and it is criminals itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in criminals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with criminal. For points, the strongest plays are criminal and minicars — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in criminals produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with similar. For points, the strongest plays are laicism, minicar, and narcism — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling criminals turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with claims and raisin. For points, the strongest plays are aminic, claims, limnic, manics, and racism — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in criminals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calms, claim, crams, liars, mails, nails, and rains. For points, the strongest plays are amici, amnic, calms, camis, claim, clams, crams, malic, manic, marcs, micas, micra, scram, and scrim — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in criminals produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, arms, calm, cans, cars, and cram. For points, the strongest plays are calm, cami, cams, clam, cram, macs, marc, mica, mics, and scam — each 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 criminals turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, arm, can, car, man, and ran. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in criminals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, and mi — each worth 4 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 criminals 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.
criminals 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for criminals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
criminals is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing criminals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is criminals, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from criminals 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 criminals produce 255 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.