crossbow needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crossbow is the highest-scoring word from crossbow, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in crossbow — and it is crossbow itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling crossbow produces exactly one six-letter word: scrobs. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crossbow. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cross. For points, the strongest plays are brows, crows, scows, and swobs — 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 crossbow produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boos, boss, bows, cows, robs, and rows. For points, the strongest plays are bows, brow, cows, crow, scow, and swob — 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 crossbow turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boo, bow, cow, rob, row, and woo. For points, the strongest plays are bow and cow — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crossbow. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, ow, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ow and wo — each worth 5 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 crossbow plus one additional letter.
crossbow 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 crossbow. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
crossbow is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crossbow unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is crossbow, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from crossbow 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 crossbow produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 9 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.