Hidden inside glowered sit glowered and reglowed, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 156 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
glowered and reglowed tie for the highest Scrabble score from glowered at 13 points. The top 10 of 156 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in glowered: one comes from rearranging its letters, and glowered itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are glowered and reglowed, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in glowered produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lowered. For points, the strongest plays are growled and wergeld — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling glowered turns up 12 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is glowed, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in glowered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lower, older, and world. For points, the strongest plays are wedge and wodge — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in glowered produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, drew and edge. For points, the strongest play is gowd — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling glowered turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dog, ego and gee. For points, the strongest plays are dew, dow, and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in glowered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew and go. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in glowered and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
glowered 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.
glowered is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing glowered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are glowered and reglowed, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from glowered 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 glowered produce 156 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.