crossword needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crossword is the highest-scoring word from crossword, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in crossword — and it is crossword itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crossword 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 sorrows, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling crossword turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crowds 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crossword. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cords, cross, crowd, doors, odors, sword, and woods. 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 crossword produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cord, cows, door, odor, rods, rows, and wood. 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 crossword turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cow, rod, row, and woo. 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crossword. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, ow, and so. 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 crossword plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in crossword 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.
crossword 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 1-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 crossword. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
crossword is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crossword unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is crossword, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from crossword 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 crossword produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.