fallowing needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 175 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fallowing is the highest-scoring word from fallowing, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 175 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in fallowing — and it is fallowing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fallowing produces exactly one eight-letter word: allowing. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fallowing produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with falling and flowing. For points, the strongest plays are flawing, flowing, fowling, and wolfing — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling fallowing turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gallon. For points, the strongest plays are fallow and inflow — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fallowing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allow, along, final, flown, owing, and wagon. For points, the strongest play is flown — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in fallowing produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fail, fall, fill, flag, flaw, flow, and gain. For points, the strongest plays are fawn, flaw, flow, fowl, waif, and wolf — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling fallowing turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, all, fan, fog, gal, ill, and law. For points, the strongest plays are fag, fig, fog, gif, wag, and wig — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fallowing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, aw, go, if, in, no, and of. For points, the strongest plays are aw, fa, if, of, 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 fallowing 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.
fallowing 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
fallowing is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fallowing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is fallowing, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fallowing 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 fallowing produce 175 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.