kowtow needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 17 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
kowtow is the highest-scoring word from kowtow, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 17 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in kowtow — and it is kowtow itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling kowtow produces exactly one five-letter word: kotow. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in kowtow plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in kowtow 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.
kowtow 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 kowtow carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for kowtow. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
kowtow is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing kowtow unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is kowtow, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from kowtow 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 kowtow produce 17 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 2 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.