Hidden inside glower sit glower and reglow, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
glower and reglow tie for the highest Scrabble score from glower at 10 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in glower: one comes from rearranging its letters, and glower 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 glower and reglow, 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 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in glower. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lower. For points, the strongest play is growl — 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 glower produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grew, grow, role, and wore. For points, the strongest plays are glow, grew, and grow — 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 glower turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, leg, log, low, owe, owl, and row. For points, the strongest plays are low, owe, owl, row, and woe — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in glower. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, go, or, ow, 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 glower 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.
glower 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 three senses for glower. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
glower is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing glower unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are glower and reglow, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from glower 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 glower produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.