Hidden inside crimson sit crimson and microns, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 108 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crimson and microns tie for the highest Scrabble score from crimson at 11 points. The top 10 of 108 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in crimson: one comes from rearranging its letters, and crimson itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crimson and microns, 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 crimson turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are micron and micros, 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crimson. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, corns, irons, and minor. For points, the strongest plays are corms, micro, monic, osmic, 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 crimson produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cons, corn, and iron. For points, the strongest plays are corm, mics, and mocs — 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 crimson turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, nor, sin, sir, and son. For points, the strongest plays are mic and moc — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crimson. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are mi, mo, and om — 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 crimson and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
crimson 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 five senses for crimson. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
crimson is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crimson unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are crimson and microns, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from crimson 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 crimson produce 108 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.