crossbar 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, 118 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crossbar is the highest-scoring word from crossbar, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 118 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in crossbar — and it is crossbar itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling crossbar turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with across and cobras. For points, the strongest plays are carbos, carobs, cobras, and scrobs — 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 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crossbar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cobra, crabs, cross, and scars. For points, the strongest plays are carbo, carbs, carob, cobra, crabs, scabs, and scrob — 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 crossbar produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bars, bass, boss, bras, cabs, cars, and crab. For points, the strongest plays are cabs, carb, cobs, crab, and scab — 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 crossbar turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, bar, bra, cab, car, and rob. For points, the strongest plays are cab and cob — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crossbar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bo — 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 crossbar plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in crossbar 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.
crossbar 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 three senses for crossbar. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
crossbar is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crossbar unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is crossbar, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from crossbar 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 crossbar produce 118 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.