Hidden inside bowling sit blowing and bowling, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble BLOWGIN, BOINGLW or WBLOGIN and you get the same 7 letters as BOWLING: so the words from BOWLING listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
blowing and bowling tie for the highest Scrabble score from bowling at 13 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in bowling: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bowling itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: blowing and bowling, worth 13 points apiece in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bowling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bingo, blown, and owing. For points, the strongest play is blown — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bowling produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blog, blow and boil. For points, the strongest plays are blow and bowl — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bowling turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with big, bow and log. For points, the strongest play is bow — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bowling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and no. For points, the strongest plays are ow and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in bowling plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bowling and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
bowling 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 bowling. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
bowling is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bowling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are blowing and bowling, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bowling 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 bowling produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.