Hidden inside crutches sit crutches and scutcher, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 141 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crutches and scutcher tie for the highest Scrabble score from crutches at 15 points. The top 10 of 141 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in crutches: one comes from rearranging its letters, and crutches 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 crutches and scutcher, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in crutches 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 words are curches and cutches, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling crutches turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crutch and scutch, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crutches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chest, crush, cures, curse, cuter, and hurts. For points, the strongest plays are curch and cutch — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in crutches produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cues, cure, cute, cuts, hers, hurt, and rest. For points, the strongest plays are echt, etch, such, and tech — 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 crutches turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cut, her, set, she, sue, and the. For points, the strongest plays are eth, her, hes, het, hue, hut, she, and the — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crutches. 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in crutches plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in crutches 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.
crutches 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 two senses for crutches. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
crutches is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crutches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are crutches and scutcher, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from crutches 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 crutches produce 141 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.