Hidden inside crony sit corny and crony, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 18 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
corny and crony tie for the highest Scrabble score from crony at 10 points. The top 10 of 18 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in crony: one comes from rearranging its letters, and crony itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are corny and crony, each 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 crony produces 3 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corn. For points, the strongest plays are cony and cory — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling crony turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cry, and nor. For points, the strongest plays are coy and cry — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crony. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, or, oy, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy and yo — each worth 5 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 crony 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.
crony 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 one sense for crony. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
crony is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crony unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are corny and crony, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from crony 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 crony produce 18 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.