CRIS is a valid Scrabble word, but not in Words with Friends — 6 points
Yes for Scrabble. CRIS is in Collins and in the North American lists, so it stands in any Scrabble game. Words with Friends keeps a separate list and does not accept it.
Which word lists accept CRIS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CRIS is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CRIS
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How CRIS scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in CRIS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,077.
What does CRIS mean in Scrabble?
noun
rare
A dagger with a wavy, flame-shaped blade, traditionally carried in Southeast Asia; a variant spelling of kris.
Cris reached English through Malay and Indonesian trade contacts, arriving alongside the far more common spelling kris as European visitors transliterated the same word slightly differently. Collectors judge the weapon less by its name than by its forging: a pattern-welded surface and a carved wooden sheath once marked the rank of its owner. Museums cataloguing older colonial-era collections sometimes kept cris simply because that spelling was written on the original accession record.
How CRIS is used
Encountered mainly as an alternate spelling of kris in dictionaries and word lists.
- The collector displayed a curved cris beside other Southeast Asian blades.
- A cris, like a kris, often has a wavy, flame-shaped blade.
- He inherited an old cris wrapped in cloth from his grandfather.
- The museum labelled the dagger simply as a cris.
- Traders once carried a cris as both weapon and status symbol.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CRIS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CRIS
Showing 24 of 51 words that begin with CRIS.
Words ending in CRIS
1 words end in CRIS. Useful as a back hook: play CRIS onto a word already on the board.
Words with CRIS inside
20 words contain CRIS in the middle. Words that start with CRIS are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CRIS
Common questions about CRIS
- Is CRIS valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and CRIS is not in it.
- How many points is CRIS worth?
- CRIS is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CRIS mean?
- A dagger with a wavy, flame-shaped blade, traditionally carried in Southeast Asia; a variant spelling of kris.
- What letters can be added to CRIS?
- CRIS takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of CRIS:
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