crocodile needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 169 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crocodile is the highest-scoring word from crocodile, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 169 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in crocodile — and it is crocodile itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crocodile produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with circled and colored. For points, the strongest play is circled — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling crocodile turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with circle, colder, cooled, and cooler. For points, the strongest plays are cicero, circle, and cleric — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crocodile. If a familiar word is all you need, start with color, cried, older, and rodeo. For points, the strongest play is codec — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in crocodile produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cold, cool, cord, core, deli, and dice. For points, the strongest plays are coco and croc — 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 crocodile turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ice, led, lid, lie, oil, and old. For points, the strongest plays are cod and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crocodile. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, and or. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in crocodile plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in crocodile and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
crocodile 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for crocodile. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
crocodile is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crocodile unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is crocodile, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from crocodile 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 crocodile produce 169 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.