Hidden inside chowsed sit chowsed and cowshed, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 117 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chowsed and cowshed tie for the highest Scrabble score from chowsed at 16 points. The top 10 of 117 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in chowsed: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chowsed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chowsed and cowshed, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chowsed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chews, chose, codes, and whose. For points, the strongest plays are chews and chows — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chowsed produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chew, code and cows. For points, the strongest plays are chew and chow — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chowsed turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cow, how and owe. For points, the strongest plays are hew, how, and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chowsed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh and ew. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including eh, ew and he.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in chowsed plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chowsed 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.
chowsed 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in chowsed carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
chowsed is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chowsed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chowsed and cowshed, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chowsed 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 chowsed produce 117 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.