kotows needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
kotows is the highest-scoring word from kotows, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in kotows — and it is kotows itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kotows. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is kotow, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in kotows produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with took, tows, and twos. For points, the strongest play is woks — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling kotows turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with too, tow, two, and woo. For points, the strongest play is wok — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in kotows plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in kotows and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
kotows 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in kotows carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for kotows. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
kotows is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing kotows unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is kotows, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from kotows 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 kotows produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.