Hidden inside dowagers sit dowagers and wordages, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 301 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dowagers and wordages tie for the highest Scrabble score from dowagers at 13 points. The top 10 of 301 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in dowagers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dowagers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dowagers and wordages, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dowagers produces 4 valid seven-letter words. 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 dowagers turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores and grades. For points, the strongest plays are swaged and wodges — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 75 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dowagers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, dares, dears, drags, draws, grade, and grows. For points, the strongest plays are gowds, 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 dowagers produces 107 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages, dare, dear, does, dogs, and drag. 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 dowagers turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age, ago, are, dog, ear, and ego. 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dowagers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, aw, do, ew, go, and or. 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in dowagers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dowagers 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.
dowagers 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 dowagers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
dowagers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dowagers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dowagers and wordages, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dowagers 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 dowagers produce 301 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 75 five-letter words, 107 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.