crossest needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crossest is the highest-scoring word from crossest, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in crossest — and it is crossest itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crossest produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crosses and sectors. For points, the strongest plays are corsets, cossets, costers, crosses, escorts, scoters, and sectors — 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 crossest turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scores, sector, sorest, stores, stress, and tosses. For points, the strongest plays are cestos, corses, corset, cosets, cosset, coster, crests, crosse, escort, escots, rectos, scores, scoter, and sector — 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 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crossest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, costs, cross, rests, roses, score, and sorts. For points, the strongest plays are ceros, certs, cores, corse, coses, coset, costs, cotes, cress, crest, cross, escot, recto, score, scots, sects, soces, and torcs — 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 crossest produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, cost, rest, rose, sets, sore, and sort. For points, the strongest plays are cero, cert, cess, core, cors, coss, cost, cote, cots, ecos, orcs, recs, rocs, scot, secs, sect, tecs, and torc — 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 crossest turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with set and toe. For points, the strongest plays are cor, cos, cot, eco, orc, rec, roc, sec, soc, and tec — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crossest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, et, oe, or, os, re, so, te, and to — 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 crossest 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.
crossest 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.
crossest is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crossest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is crossest, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from crossest 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 crossest produce 140 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.