Hidden inside elbows sit belows, bowels, and elbows, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
belows, bowels, and elbows tie for the highest Scrabble score from elbows at 11 points. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in elbows: two come from rearranging its letters, and elbows itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bowels and elbows. For points, the strongest plays are belows, bowels, and elbows — 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elbows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with below, blows, bowel, bowls, and elbow. For points, the strongest plays are below, blows, bowel, bowls, bowse, and elbow — 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 elbows produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blew, blow, bowl, bows, lose, owes, and owls. For points, the strongest plays are blew, blow, bowl, bows, swob, and webs — each 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 elbows turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bow, low, owe, owl, sew, and web. For points, the strongest plays are bow and web — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elbows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, ew, 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 elbows 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.
elbows 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 seven senses for elbows. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
elbows is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing elbows unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are belows, bowels, and elbows, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from elbows 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 elbows produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.