Unscramble CRISE and you have 38 words, CRISE itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. CRISE has 6 anagrams here, CIRES, CRIES, ERICS, ICERS, RICES and SERIC, scoring 7 like CRISE itself. 8 shorter words score 6, among them RICE, ICES and ICER. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
C34R1I1S1E1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from CRISE split into 7 with 5 letters, 13 with 4, 13 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of CRISE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with CR · ending in SE · all 5-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; CIRES, CRIES and RICES (7 points each) share the top spot.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
CRISE is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRISE itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 38) | 31 | 38 | 31 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CRISE, ERICS, ICERS, SERIC, ERIC, ICER and SEIR, 7 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of CRISE and one more.