Hidden inside dowager sit dowager and wordage, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dowager and wordage tie for the highest Scrabble score from dowager at 12 points. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in dowager: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dowager 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 dowager and wordage, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dowager turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is redowa, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dowager. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore and grade. For points, the strongest plays are waged and wodge — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dowager produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare, dear, drag, draw, drew, and grew. For points, the strongest play is gowd — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dowager turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, are, dog, ear, ego, and era. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dew, dow, wad, wag, and wed — 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 dowager. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, aw, do, ew, go, or, and ow. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, ow, we, 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 dowager 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.
dowager 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 1-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 dowager. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
dowager is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dowager unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dowager and wordage, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dowager 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 dowager produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.