A follows CR in 40 of the 5 letter words with CR in them, and O follows it in 33. Crash, Crack and Craft have A after CR, while Cross, Crowd and Crown have O.
Crane, Crime, Crowd, Cream and Crown test C and R in Wordle with three new letters apiece. In Scrabble, Crazy scores 19 points, with Craze and Croze at 16.
5 Letter Words With CR In Them
These are the familiar 5 letter words with CR in them. Five of these thirty words repeat a letter.
| Crazy | Cross | Crime |
| Crowd | Cream | Crown |
| Crash | Crack | Creek |
| Craft | Screw | Cried |
| Acres | Crush | Cruel |
| Micro | Crops | Crude |
| Cries | Crane | Scrap |
| Crews | Creep | Crawl |
| Macro | Creed | Crisp |
| Crust | Crank | Crest |
5 Letter Words With CR In Them By Position
CR starts 110 of the 146 words, and the other 36 have CR in the middle. None ends in CR.
Words Starting With CR And Ending In A To N
Twenty-two of these fifty-five words end in E.
| Crena | Crura | Cromb |
| Crumb | Craic | Creed |
| Cried | Crowd | Crake |
| Crame | Crane | Crape |
| Crare | Crate | Crave |
| Craze | Creme | Crepe |
| Crewe | Crime | Crine |
| Cripe | Crise | Crome |
| Crone | Crore | Croze |
| Crude | Cruse | Cruve |
| Craig | Crash | Crith |
| Crush | Crwth | Croci |
| Crack | Crank | Creak |
| Creek | Crick | Croak |
| Crock | Cronk | Crook |
| Cruck | Crunk | Craal |
| Crawl | Creel | Crool |
| Cruel | Cream | Croon |
| Crown |
Words Starting With CR And Ending In O To Y
Ten of these fifty-five words are familiar.
| Credo | Crudo | Cramp |
| Creep | Crimp | Crisp |
| Croup | Crump | Crier |
| Cruor | Cryer | Crabs |
| Crags | Crams | Crans |
| Craps | Crass | Craws |
| Crays | Creds | Crees |
| Crems | Creps | Cress |
| Crews | Crias | Cribs |
| Cries | Crims | Crios |
| Crits | Crocs | Crogs |
| Crons | Crops | Cross |
| Crows | Cruds | Crues |
| Craft | Crept | Crest |
| Croft | Crost | Crout |
| Cruet | Cruft | Crust |
| Crypt | Crapy | Crazy |
| Crepy | Crony | Crudy |
| Crusy |
Words With CR In The Middle
Sixteen of these thirty-six words have exactly two vowels.
| Acred | Acres | Acrid |
| Acros | Decry | Ecrus |
| Lucre | Lycra | Macro |
| Micra | Micro | Mucro |
| Nacre | Ocrea | Picra |
| Sacra | Scrab | Scrae |
| Scrag | Scram | Scran |
| Scrap | Scrat | Scraw |
| Scray | Scree | Screw |
| Scrim | Scrip | Scrob |
| Scrod | Scrog | Scrow |
| Scrub | Scrum | Sucre |
Best 5 Letter Words With CR In Them For Wordle
Of the 146 words, thirty repeat a letter, as Cross, Creed and Creek do, so the picks are limited to words with five different letters. Seven of the twelve picks have exactly two vowels.
| Crane | Crime |
| Crowd | Cream |
| Crown | Crazy |
| Craft | Cruel |
| Micro | Crude |
| Acres | Scrap |
Highest Scoring 5 Letter Words With CR In Them In Scrabble
Crazy leads at 19 points, and Craze and Croze follow at 16.
| Word | Points |
|---|---|
| Crazy | 19 |
| Craze | 16 |
| Croze | 16 |
| Crack | 13 |
| Crick | 13 |
| Crock | 13 |
| Cruck | 13 |
| Crwth | 13 |
| Crapy | 12 |
| Crepy | 12 |
| Crypt | 12 |
Meanings Of 5 Letter Words With CR In Them
Each word is defined in its everyday sense.
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Acres | Units of ground measure equal to 4,840 square yards |
| Crack | A thin split, or to break open |
| Craft | A skill, or a vessel |
| Crane | A tall lifting machine, or a long-legged bird |
| Crank | A bent handle for rotating a shaft |
| Crash | A violent collision, or to fail suddenly |
| Crawl | To move on hands and knees |
| Crazy | Mentally unwell, or wildly foolish |
| Cream | The thick fatty layer of milk |
| Creed | A set of beliefs |
| Creek | A small stream |
| Creep | To move slowly and quietly |
| Crest | The top of a hill, wave or bird’s head |
| Crews | Teams working together on a ship or aircraft |
| Cried | Wept, or called out loudly |
| Cries | Weeps, or shouts |
| Crime | An act that breaks the law |
| Crisp | Firm and brittle |
| Crops | Plants grown for food |
| Cross | Angry, or to go from one side to the other |
| Crowd | A large gathering of people |
| Crown | A ring worn on the head by a monarch |
| Crude | Rough in form, or unrefined |
| Cruel | Causing pain without pity |
| Crush | To press until broken or flattened |
| Crust | The hard outer layer of bread |
| Macro | Large in scale |
| Micro | Extremely small |
| Scrap | A small leftover piece, or to discard |
| Screw | A threaded metal fastener |
FAQs
There are 146 in total. Thirty-one are familiar words such as Crazy, Cross and Crime, and the other 115 are rarer terms accepted in Scrabble.
The strongest are Crane, Crime, Crowd, Cream and Crown. Each has five different letters, so a single guess tests three new tiles beside C and R.
The highest score is 19 points, from Crazy. Craze and Croze are next at 16, and Crack, Crick, Crock, Cruck and Crwth follow at 13.
There are 110, such as Crazy, Cross, Crime and Crowd. Twenty-five of them are familiar words.
S is the final letter of 31 of the 146 words, ahead of E with 27 and K with 11. These three letters end 69 of the 146 words.
There are twenty-seven, such as Crazy, Crash, Crack, Craft and Crane. Crazy, Crash and Crack are the most familiar.
There are thirty that repeat a letter, out of the 146 words. Cross, Creed and Creek are three of them.
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- 5 Letter Words With CO In Them
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- 5 Letter Words With DR In Them
- 5 Letter Words With CK In Them
