follows needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
follows is the highest-scoring word from follows, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in follows — and it is follows itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling follows produces exactly one six-letter word: follow. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in follows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flows and fools. For points, the strongest plays are flows, fowls, wolfs, and woofs — each 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 follows produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flow, fool, owls, slow, solo, and wolf. For points, the strongest plays are flow, fowl, wolf, and woof — 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 follows turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with low, owl, and woo. For points, the strongest plays are foo, low, oof, owl, sow, woo, and wos — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in follows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with of, ow, and so. For points, the strongest plays are 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 follows and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
follows 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 twenty-four senses for follows. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
follows is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing follows unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is follows, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from follows 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 follows produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 7 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.