hollowed needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hollowed is the highest-scoring word from hollowed, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in hollowed — and it is hollowed itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hollowed produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are holloed and woolled, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hollowed turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is howled, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hollowed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hello and whole. For points, the strongest play is whole — 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 hollowed produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doll, held, hell, hold, hole, hood, and owed. For points, the strongest play is dhow — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hollowed turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with how, led, low, oho, old, owe, and owl. For points, the strongest plays are hew, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hollowed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh, ew, he, ho, oh, and ow. For points, the strongest plays are eh, ew, he, ho, oh, 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 hollowed 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.
hollowed 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.
hollowed is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hollowed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hollowed, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hollowed 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 hollowed produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.