disallows needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 196 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
disallows is the highest-scoring word from disallows, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 196 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in disallows — and it is disallows itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling disallows produces exactly one eight-letter word: disallow. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling disallows produces exactly one seven-letter word: sallows. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling disallows turns up 13 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 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in disallows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allow, dials, dolls, loads, sails, slows, and sodas. 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 disallows produces 71 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 disallows turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, all, ass, ids, ill, and lad. 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 disallows. 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.
Swap a single tile in disallows 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.
disallows 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 disallows. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
disallows is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing disallows unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is disallows, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from disallows 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 disallows produce 196 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 13 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.