crushes needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 77 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crushes is the highest-scoring word from crushes, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 77 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in crushes — and it is crushes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling crushes turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with curses and rushes. For points, the strongest plays are chuses and ruches — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crushes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chess, crush, cures, and curse. For points, the strongest plays are chess, chuse, crush, and ruche — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in crushes produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cues, cure, hers, rush, such, sues, and sure. For points, the strongest play is such — 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 crushes turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, her, she, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are her, hes, hue, and she — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crushes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, sh, uh, and us. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, sh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in crushes and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
crushes 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 twelve senses for crushes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
crushes is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crushes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is crushes, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from crushes 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 crushes produce 77 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 10 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.