Hidden inside crises sit crises and scries, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crises and scries tie for the highest Scrabble score from crises at 8 points. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in crises: one comes from rearranging its letters, and crises itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crises. For points, the strongest plays are crises and scries — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, rices, and rises. For points, the strongest plays are cires, cress, cries, rices, and sices — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in crises produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ices, rice, rise, and sirs. For points, the strongest plays are cess, cire, cris, ices, recs, rice, secs, sice, and sics — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling crises turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice and sir. For points, the strongest plays are cis, ice, rec, sec, and sic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, is, re, and si — each worth 2 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 crises and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
crises 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
crises is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are crises and scries, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from crises 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 crises produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.