crosshead needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 485 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crosshead is the highest-scoring word from crosshead, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 485 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in crosshead — and it is crosshead itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crosshead produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crashed, crashes, and crossed. For points, 7 words tie at 13 points, including crashed, chadors and chassed.
Unscrambling crosshead turns up 90 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with across, adores and cashed. For points, 13 words tie at 12 points, including cashed, chased and arched.
There are 140 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crosshead. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, ashes and cards. For points, the strongest plays are ached, chads, chard, and chord — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crosshead produces 136 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with card, care and cars. For points, the strongest play is chad — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling crosshead turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are and ash. For points, the strongest play is och — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crosshead. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and as. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in crosshead plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in crosshead and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
crosshead 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in crosshead carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for crosshead. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
crosshead is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crosshead unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is crosshead, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from crosshead 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 crosshead produce 485 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 21 seven-letter words, 90 six-letter words, 140 five-letter words, 136 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.