crosswise needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 159 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crosswise is the highest-scoring word from crosswise, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 159 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in crosswise — and it is crosswise itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in crosswise produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crosses. For points, the strongest plays are cowries and escrows — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling crosswise turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crises, scores, and screws. For points, the strongest plays are cowers, cowier, cowrie, escrow, and screws — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crosswise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, crews, cries, cross, rices, rises, and roses. For points, the strongest plays are cower, crews, crows, scows, and screw — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in crosswise produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, cows, crew, ices, owes, rice, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are cows, crew, crow, and scow — 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 crosswise turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cow, ice, owe, row, sew, and sir. For points, the strongest play is cow — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crosswise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, is, or, ow, so, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 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 crosswise and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
crosswise 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 three senses for crosswise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
crosswise is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crosswise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is crosswise, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from crosswise 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 crosswise produce 159 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.