crisis needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 13 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crisis is the highest-scoring word from crisis, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 13 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in crisis — and it is crisis itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crisis produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sirs. For points, the strongest plays are cris 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 crisis turns up 5 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sir. For points, the strongest plays are cis 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 2 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crisis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is. For points, the strongest plays are is 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 crisis 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.
crisis 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for crisis. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
crisis is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crisis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is crisis, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from crisis 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 crisis produce 13 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 5 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 2 two-letter words.