Hidden inside crores sit corers, crores, and scorer, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
corers, crores, and scorer tie for the highest Scrabble score from crores at 8 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in crores: two come from rearranging its letters, and crores itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are corers, crores, and scorer, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crores. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, score, and sorer. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including cores, score and ceros.
Rearranging the letters in crores produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, rose, and sore. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including core, cero and cors.
Unscrambling crores turns up 17 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cor, cos, eco and 5 more, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
25 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in crores plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in crores and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
crores 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 crores. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
crores is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crores unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are corers, crores, and scorer, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from crores 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 crores produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.