Hidden inside crosswind sit crosswind and discrowns, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 179 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crosswind and discrowns tie for the highest Scrabble score from crosswind at 15 points. The top 10 of 179 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in crosswind: one comes from rearranging its letters, and crosswind 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 crosswind and discrowns, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling crosswind produces exactly one eight-letter word: discrown. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crosswind produces 2 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 disowns, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling crosswind turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crowds, crowns, discos, drowns, and swords. For points, the strongest play is crowds — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crosswind. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, cords, corns, cross, crowd, crown, and disco. For points, the strongest play is crowd — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in crosswind produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cons, cord, corn, cows, down, and iron. For points, the strongest plays are cows, crow, and scow — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling crosswind turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cow, ids, nor, now, own, and rid. For points, the strongest play is cow — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crosswind. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, in, is, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ow and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in crosswind plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in crosswind 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.
crosswind 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 crosswind. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
crosswind is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crosswind unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are crosswind and discrowns, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from crosswind 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 crosswind produce 179 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.