crosspiece 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, 334 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crosspiece is the highest-scoring word from crosspiece, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 334 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in crosspiece — and it is crosspiece itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crosspiece. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cercises, cicorees, precises, and recopies, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crosspiece produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copiers, corpses and process. For points, 15 words tie at 11 points, including copiers, corpses and process.
Unscrambling crosspiece turns up 69 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copier, copies and corpse. For points, 30 words tie at 10 points, including copier, copies and corpse.
There are 92 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crosspiece. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, cries and cross. For points, 31 words tie at 9 points, including piece, price and spice.
Rearranging the letters in crosspiece produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cops, core and epic. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including cops, epic and cepe.
Unscrambling crosspiece turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, ice and pee. For points, the strongest plays are cep, cop, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crosspiece. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in crosspiece plus one additional letter.
crosspiece 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 two senses for crosspiece. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
crosspiece is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crosspiece unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is crosspiece, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from crosspiece 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 crosspiece produce 334 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 69 six-letter words, 92 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.