Hidden inside flower sit flower, fowler, reflow and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble REFOWL, ROLFEW or ROLWEF and you get the same 6 letters as FLOWER: so the words from FLOWER listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
flower, fowler, reflow and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from flower at 12 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in flower: three come from rearranging its letters, and flower itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flower. For points, the strongest plays are flower, fowler, reflow, and wolfer — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in flower produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flew, flow and role. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including flew, flow and wolf.
Unscrambling flower turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, few and for. For points, the strongest play is few — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in flower. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, of and or. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including ew, of and ow.
8 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in flower plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in flower 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.
flower 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 four senses for flower. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
flower is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing flower unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are flower, fowler, reflow, and wolfer, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from flower 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 flower produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.