Hidden inside krises sit kisser, krises, skiers and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
kisser, krises, skiers and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from krises at 10 points. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in krises: three come from rearranging its letters, and krises itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kisser. For points, the strongest plays are kisser, krises, skiers, and skries — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in krises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rises, risks, and skies. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including risks, skies and keirs.
Rearranging the letters in krises produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kiss, rise and risk. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including kiss, risk and skis.
Unscrambling krises turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sir and ski. For points, the strongest plays are irk, kir, kis, and ski — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
13 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in krises plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in krises 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.
krises 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in krises carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for krises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
krises is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing krises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are kisser, krises, skiers, and skries, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from krises 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 krises produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.