Hidden inside crudites sit crudites, curdiest, and curtsied, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 294 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crudites, curdiest, and curtsied tie for the highest Scrabble score from crudites at 11 points. The top 10 of 294 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in crudites: two come from rearranging its letters, and crudites itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crudites, curdiest, and curtsied, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crudites produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credits and directs. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including credits, directs and crudest.
Unscrambling crudites turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credit, cruise and cursed. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including credit, cursed and direct.
There are 83 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crudites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, cries and cured. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including cried, cured and dices.
Rearranging the letters in crudites produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cues, cure and cute. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including dice, cedi and cred.
Unscrambling crudites turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cut and die. For points, the strongest play is cud — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crudites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in crudites plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in crudites and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
crudites 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 crudites. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
crudites is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crudites unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are crudites, curdiest, and curtsied, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from crudites 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 crudites produce 294 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 83 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.