Hidden inside across sit across and oscars, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 53 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
across and oscars tie for the highest Scrabble score from across at 8 points. The top 10 of 53 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in across: one comes from rearranging its letters, and across itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with across. For points, the strongest plays are across and oscars — 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in across. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cross and scars. For points, the strongest plays are acros, crass, cross, orcas, oscar, scars, and socas — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in across produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cars and scar. For points, the strongest plays are acro, arco, arcs, cars, cors, coss, ocas, orca, orcs, rocs, sacs, scar, and soca — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling across turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass and car. For points, the strongest plays are arc, car, cor, cos, oca, orc, roc, sac, and soc — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in across. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ar, as, or, os, and so — each worth 2 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 across 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.
across 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 one sense for across. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
across is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing across unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are across and oscars, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from across 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 across produce 53 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.