Hidden inside crista sit crista, racist, and triacs, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crista, racist, and triacs tie for the highest Scrabble score from crista at 8 points. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in crista: two come from rearranging its letters, and crista itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with racist. For points, the strongest plays are crista, racist, and triacs — 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crista. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carts and stair. For points, the strongest plays are carts, crias, crits, scart, and triac — 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 crista produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs, arts, cars, cart, cast, and cats. For points, the strongest plays are acts, arcs, asci, cars, cart, cast, cats, cist, cria, cris, crit, scar, scat, and tics — 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 crista turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, art, car, cat, its, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are act, arc, car, cat, cis, sac, sic, and tic — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crista. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ai, ar, as, at, is, it, si, ta, and ti — 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 crista 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.
crista 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.
crista is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crista unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are crista, racist, and triacs, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from crista 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 crista produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.