Hidden inside crying sit cringy and crying, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 15 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cringy and crying tie for the highest Scrabble score from crying at 12 points. The top 10 of 15 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in crying: one comes from rearranging its letters, and crying itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crying. For points, the strongest plays are cringy and crying — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in crying produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ring. For points, the strongest play is gyri — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling crying turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry and rig. For points, the strongest plays are cry and icy — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 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 crying 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.
crying 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 three senses for crying. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
crying is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cringy and crying, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from crying 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 crying produce 15 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 2 two-letter words.