crossways needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 129 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crossways is the highest-scoring word from crossways, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 129 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in crossways — and it is crossways itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling crossways produces exactly one eight-letter word: crossway. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling crossways produces exactly one seven-letter word: sowcars. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crossways. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cross, scars, and scary. For points, the strongest play is cowry — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crossways produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cars, cows and rows. For points, the strongest play is cowy — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling crossways turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, car and cow. For points, the strongest plays are way, wry, yaw, and yow — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crossways. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, aw and ay. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including aw, ay and ow.
Swap a single tile in crossways 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.
crossways 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 crossways carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for crossways. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
crossways is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crossways unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is crossways, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from crossways 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 crossways produce 129 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.