hollows 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, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hollows is the highest-scoring word from hollows, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in hollows — and it is hollows itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hollows turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is hollow, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hollows. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are howls, whoso, and woosh, 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 hollows produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with owls, shoo, show, slow, and solo. For points, the strongest plays are howl, hows, and show — 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 hollows turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with how, low, oho, owl, who, and woo. For points, the strongest plays are how 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hollows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ho, oh, ow, sh, and so. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
Swap a single tile in hollows 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.
hollows 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 nine senses for hollows. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
hollows is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hollows unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hollows, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hollows 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 hollows produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.