Hidden inside cronies sit coiners, cronies, orceins and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 164 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
coiners, cronies, orceins and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from cronies at 9 points. The top 10 of 164 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in cronies: three come from rearranging its letters, and cronies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coiners, cronies, orceins, and recoins, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cronies turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with senior. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including censor, coiner and conies.
There are 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cronies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, cones and cores. For points, 24 words tie at 7 points, including coins, cones and cores.
Rearranging the letters in cronies produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cone and cons. For points, 23 words tie at 6 points, including coin, cone and cons.
Unscrambling cronies turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice and nor. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including con, ice and cis.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cronies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and no. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and no.
28 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in cronies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cronies and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
cronies 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 2-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 cronies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
cronies is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cronies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are coiners, cronies, orceins, and recoins, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cronies 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 cronies produce 164 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.