Hidden inside hallows sit hallows and shallow, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 89 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hallows and shallow tie for the highest Scrabble score from hallows at 13 points. The top 10 of 89 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in hallows: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hallows itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shallow. For points, the strongest plays are hallows and shallow — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hallows turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allows. For points, the strongest play is hallow — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hallows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allow, halls, shall, and walls. For points, the strongest plays are howls and shawl — 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 hallows produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, hall, laws, owls, show, slow, and wall. For points, the strongest plays are haws, howl, hows, shaw, show, shwa, wash, and whoa — 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 hallows turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ash, has, how, law, low, and owl. For points, the strongest plays are haw, how, wha, and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hallows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, aw, ha, ho, oh, and ow. For points, the strongest plays are ah, aw, ha, ho, oh, ow, sh, 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.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in hallows plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hallows 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.
hallows 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 one sense for hallows. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
hallows is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hallows unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hallows and shallow, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hallows 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 hallows produce 89 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.