Hidden inside cries sit cires, cries, and rices, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cires, cries, and rices tie for the highest Scrabble score from cries at 7 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in cries: two come from rearranging its letters, and cries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries and rices. For points, the strongest plays are cires, cries, and rices — 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 cries produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ices, rice, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are cire, cris, ices, recs, rice, and sice — 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 cries turns up 13 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 cries. 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.
31 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in cries plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cries and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
cries 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 twelve senses for cries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
cries is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cires, cries, and rices, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cries 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 cries produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.