Hidden inside rowdies sit dowries, rowdies, weirdos and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 150 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dowries, rowdies, weirdos and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from rowdies at 11 points. The top 10 of 150 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in rowdies: three come from rearranging its letters, and rowdies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with weirdos. For points, the strongest plays are dowries, rowdies, weirdos, and wordies — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rowdies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dries, rides and sword. For points, 13 words tie at 9 points, including sword, weird and wider.
Rearranging the letters in rowdies produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, does and drew. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including drew, owed and wide.
Unscrambling rowdies turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids and owe. For points, the strongest plays are dew, dow, and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rowdies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew and id. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
9 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in rowdies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rowdies 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.
rowdies 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 rowdies carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for rowdies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
rowdies is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rowdies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dowries, rowdies, weirdos, and wordies, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rowdies 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 rowdies produce 150 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.