83 words come out when you unscramble CROSSBOWS, starting with CROSSBOWS itself: 16 in Scrabble, 18 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 2 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from CROSSBOWS by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 3 with 6, 13 with 5, 30 with 4, 27 with 3 and 8 with 2. None has 7 letters.
CROSSBOW is the only one of the 8-letter words in CROSSBOWS; it scores 15 points.
CROSSBOWS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept CROSSBOWS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CROSSBOWS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 83) | 65 | 83 | 59 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
18 of the 83 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SCROWS, BOWRS, SCROW, BOWR, CORSOS, CORSO, SORBO, BORS, OBOS, SOCS, BOR, OBO and 6 more. 6 of the 83 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SCROBS, SCROB, CORS, SOC, ROOS and ROO.