Hidden inside cripple sit clipper and cripple, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 57 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clipper and cripple tie for the highest Scrabble score from cripple at 13 points. The top 10 of 57 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in cripple: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cripple itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cripple. For points, the strongest plays are clipper and cripple — 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 cripple turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is precip, worth 12 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 cripple. If a familiar word is all you need, start with price. For points, the strongest plays are cripe, piper, and price — 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 cripple produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clip, epic, lice, pile, pipe, and rice. For points, the strongest plays are clip, crip, epic, perc, perp, pice, pipe, prep, and repp — 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 cripple turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, lie, lip, per, pie, rep, and rip. For points, the strongest plays are cep, pec, pep, pic, and pip — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cripple. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pe and pi, 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 cripple 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.
cripple 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 three senses for cripple. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
cripple is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cripple unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are clipper and cripple, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cripple 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 cripple produce 57 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.