crossarm needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 119 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crossarm is the highest-scoring word from crossarm, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 119 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in crossarm — and it is crossarm itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling crossarm produces exactly one seven-letter word: carroms. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling crossarm turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with across. For points, the strongest plays are caroms, carrom, macros, and scrams — 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 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crossarm. If a familiar word is all you need, start with comas, crams, cross, scams, and scars. For points, the strongest plays are camos, carom, comas, corms, crams, macro, marcs, scams, and scram — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in crossarm produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, cars, coma, cram, mass, scam, and scar. For points, the strongest plays are camo, cams, coma, corm, cram, macs, marc, mocs, and scam — 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 crossarm turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arm, ass, and car. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and moc — each worth 7 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 crossarm. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in crossarm plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in crossarm and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
crossarm 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.
crossarm is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crossarm unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is crossarm, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from crossarm 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 crossarm produce 119 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.