Hidden inside crypses sit crypses and cypress, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 55 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crypses and cypress tie for the highest Scrabble score from crypses at 14 points. The top 10 of 55 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in crypses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and crypses itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crypses and cypress, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crypses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with press. For points, the strongest play is crepy — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crypses produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reps. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including espy, prey and pyes.
Unscrambling crypses turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry, per and rep. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including cry, spy and yep.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crypses. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ye, worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in crypses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in crypses 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.
crypses is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
crypses is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crypses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are crypses and cypress, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from crypses 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 crypses produce 55 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.