Hidden inside dowser sit dowers, dowser, and drowse, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dowers, dowser, and drowse tie for the highest Scrabble score from dowser at 10 points. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in dowser: two come from rearranging its letters, and dowser itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dowers, dowser, and drowse, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dowser. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sword, swore, words, and worse. For points, the strongest plays are dower, dowse, rowed, sowed, sword, and words — 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 dowser produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, drew, owed, owes, rode, rods, and rose. For points, the strongest plays are dews, dows, drew, owed, weds, and word — 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 dowser turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with owe, red, rod, row, and sew. For points, the strongest plays are dew, dow, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dowser. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew, or, ow, so, and we. For points, the strongest plays are 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 dowser and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
dowser 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 dowser carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for dowser. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
dowser is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dowser unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dowers, dowser, and drowse, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dowser 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 dowser produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.