allowable needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 89 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
allowable is the highest-scoring word from allowable, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 89 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in allowable — and it is allowable itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in allowable produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is lowball, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allowable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allow, below and bowel. For points, the strongest plays are below, bowel, and elbow — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in allowable produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, ball and bell. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including blew, blow and bowl.
Unscrambling allowable turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, bow and lab. For points, the strongest plays are bow, wab, and web — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allowable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aw, be and ew. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including aw, ew and ow.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in allowable plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in allowable and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
allowable is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for allowable. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
allowable is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing allowable unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is allowable, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from allowable earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in allowable produce 89 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.