Hidden inside crosswalk sit classwork and crosswalk, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 235 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
classwork and crosswalk tie for the highest Scrabble score from crosswalk at 18 points. The top 10 of 235 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in crosswalk: one comes from rearranging its letters, and crosswalk itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are classwork and crosswalk, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling crosswalk produces exactly one eight-letter word: warlocks. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crosswalk produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is warlock, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling crosswalk turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with across and crawls. For points, the strongest plays are wackos and wracks — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 61 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crosswalk. If a familiar word is all you need, start with class, claws and colas. For points, the strongest plays are wacko, wacks, and wrack — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crosswalk produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, asks and cars. For points, the strongest play is wack — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling crosswalk turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, ass and car. For points, the strongest play is wok — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crosswalk. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, aw and ok. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in crosswalk plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in crosswalk 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.
crosswalk 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 crosswalk. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
crosswalk is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crosswalk unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are classwork and crosswalk, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from crosswalk 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 crosswalk produce 235 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.