Hidden inside crinkles sit clinkers and crinkles, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 203 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clinkers and crinkles tie for the highest Scrabble score from crinkles at 14 points. The top 10 of 203 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in crinkles: one comes from rearranging its letters, and crinkles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clinkers and crinkles, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in crinkles produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nickels. For points, the strongest plays are clinker, crinkle, lickers, nickels, nickers, nickles, slicken, slicker, and snicker — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling crinkles turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nickel and sicker. For points, the strongest plays are clerks, clinks, ickers, licker, nickel, nicker, nickle, sicken, sicker, and sickle — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crinkles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, licks, likes, lines, links, necks, and nicer. For points, the strongest plays are clerk, clink, icker, licks, necks, nicks, recks, ricks, slick, sneck, and snick — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in crinkles produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ices, inks, lice, lick, lies, like, and line. For points, the strongest plays are icks, lick, neck, nick, reck, rick, and sick — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling crinkles turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, ink, lie, sin, sir, and ski. For points, the strongest play is ick — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crinkles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in crinkles plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in crinkles 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.
crinkles 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 crinkles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
crinkles is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crinkles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are clinkers and crinkles, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from crinkles 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 crinkles produce 203 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.