Unscramble CRABWISE to get 214 words. CRABWISE itself is a real word: 15 points on a Scrabble board, 17 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is SCRAWB, 13 points. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Words from CRABWISE by length: 1 with 8 letters, 4 with 7, 14 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 58 with 3 and 17 with 2.
Of the 60 5-letter words from CRABWISE, 9 score 10 points, the group's best. BASIC, BEARS and ACRES are the ones most people know.
60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble CRABWISE; 12 of them share the top score of 9. CASE, CARE and CARS are everyday picks.
The 3-letter words in CRABWISE are led by CAW, WAB and WEB, 8 points each. ARE, WAS and CAR are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of CRABWISE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with CR · ending in SE · all 8-letter words
What CRABWISE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
CRABWISE works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRABWISE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 214) | 174 | 214 | 167 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
40 of the 214 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CABRIES, CARBIES, BAWRS, BESAW, CABRIE, SCRAW, WARBS, BAWR, CABRE, SCAW, SCRAB, WARB and 28 more. 7 of the 214 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SCRAWB, CRIAS, BAES, BAE, BES, EW and RAI.
With one more tile, the letters of CRABWISE spell the words below.