crossings needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 141 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crossings is the highest-scoring word from crossings, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 141 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in crossings — and it is crossings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crossings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crossing. For points, the strongest plays are crossing and scorings — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crossings produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scoring. For points, the strongest plays are cosigns and scoring — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling crossings turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groins. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including coigns, corgis and coring.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crossings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, corns and cross. For points, the strongest plays are coign, corgi, incog, and orgic — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crossings produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cons and corn. For points, the strongest plays are cigs and cogs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling crossings turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, nor and rig. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crossings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in crossings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in crossings 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.
crossings 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record seven senses for crossings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
crossings is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crossings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is crossings, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from crossings 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 crossings produce 141 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.