crossheads needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 498 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crossheads is the highest-scoring word from crossheads, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 498 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in crossheads — and it is crossheads itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling crossheads produces exactly one nine-letter word: crosshead. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crossheads produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crashed, crashes, crossed, and crosses. For points, 7 words tie at 13 points, including crashed, chadors and chassed.
Unscrambling crossheads turns up 94 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 141 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crossheads. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, ashes and asses. For points, the strongest plays are ached, chads, chard, and chord — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crossheads produces 137 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 crossheads 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 crossheads. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in crossheads plus one additional letter.
crossheads 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 crossheads carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for crossheads. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
crossheads is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crossheads unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is crossheads, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from crossheads 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 crossheads produce 498 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 27 seven-letter words, 94 six-letter words, 141 five-letter words, 137 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.