Hidden inside cripples sit clippers and cripples, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 155 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clippers and cripples tie for the highest Scrabble score from cripples at 14 points. The top 10 of 155 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in cripples: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cripples itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cripples. For points, the strongest plays are clippers and cripples — 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 cripples produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cripple. For points, the strongest plays are clipper, cripple, and precips — 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 cripples turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prices. For points, the strongest play 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 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cripples. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clips, cries, piles, pipes, price, rices, and slice. For points, the strongest plays are clips, cripe, crips, crisp, epics, percs, perps, piper, pipes, preps, price, repps, scrip, sepic, and spice — 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 cripples produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clip, epic, ices, lice, lies, lips, and pies. For points, the strongest plays are ceps, clip, crip, epic, pecs, peps, perc, perp, pice, pics, pipe, pips, prep, repp, and spec — 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 cripples turns up 33 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cripples. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is. For points, the strongest plays 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in cripples plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cripples 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.
cripples 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 cripples. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
cripples is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cripples unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are clippers and cripples, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cripples 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 cripples produce 155 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.