Hidden inside crosswalks sit classworks and crosswalks, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 19 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 239 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
classworks and crosswalks tie for the highest Scrabble score from crosswalks at 19 points. The top 10 of 239 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in crosswalks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and crosswalks itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are classworks and crosswalks, each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling crosswalks turns up 2 nine-letter words. 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 crosswalks 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 crosswalks 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 crosswalks turns up 19 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 crosswalks. 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 crosswalks produces 87 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 crosswalks 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 crosswalks. 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.
crosswalks 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 crosswalks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
crosswalks is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crosswalks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are classworks and crosswalks, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from crosswalks 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 crosswalks produce 239 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 87 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.