crimples needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 216 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crimples is the highest-scoring word from crimples, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 216 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in crimples — and it is crimples itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crimples produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with simpler. For points, the strongest plays are crimple and spermic — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling crimples turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crimes, prices, and simple. For points, the strongest plays are crimps and scrimp — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 61 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crimples. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clips, cries and crime. For points, the strongest play is crimp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crimples produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clip, epic and ices. For points, 19 words tie at 8 points, including clip, epic and mice.
Unscrambling crimples turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, lie and lip. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including cep, imp and mic.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in crimples plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in crimples 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.
crimples 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.
crimples is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crimples unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is crimples, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from crimples 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 crimples produce 216 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.