crosswords needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 82 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crosswords is the highest-scoring word from crosswords, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 82 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in crosswords — and it is crosswords itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling crosswords produces exactly one nine-letter word: crossword. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crosswords 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 crosswords 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 crosswords. 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 crosswords 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 crosswords 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 crosswords. 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.
crosswords 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 crosswords. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
crosswords is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crosswords unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is crosswords, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from crosswords 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 crosswords produce 82 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 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.