Hidden inside grown sit grown and wrong, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 19 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grown and wrong tie for the highest Scrabble score from grown at 9 points. The top 10 of 19 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in grown: one comes from rearranging its letters, and grown itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: grown and wrong, worth 9 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in grown produces 3 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grow and worn. For points, the strongest plays are gown 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 grown turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nor, now, own, row, and won. For points, the strongest plays are now, own, row, and won — 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 grown. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, no, on, or, and ow. For points, the strongest plays are 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 grown and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
grown 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 one sense for grown. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
grown is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grown unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grown and wrong, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grown 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 grown produce 19 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.