disallow needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 154 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
disallow is the highest-scoring word from disallow, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 154 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in disallow — and it is disallow itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling disallow turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allows. For points, the strongest play is woalds — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in disallow. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allow, dials, dolls, loads, solid, walls, and wills. For points, the strongest plays are wadis, wilds, woads, woald, and wolds — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in disallow produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, also, dial, doll, lads, laid, and laws. For points, the strongest plays are daws, dows, wadi, wads, wild, woad, and wold — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling disallow turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, all, ids, ill, lad, and law. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dow, and wad — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in disallow. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, aw, do, id, is, and ow. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ow, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in disallow plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in disallow and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
disallow 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for disallow. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
disallow is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing disallow unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is disallow, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from disallow 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 disallow produce 154 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.