kowtows needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
kowtows is the highest-scoring word from kowtows, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in kowtows — and it is kowtows itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kowtows. 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 kowtows produces 15 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 kowtows turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with too, tow and two. For points, the strongest play is wok — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
kowtows 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 kowtows carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for kowtows. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
kowtows is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing kowtows unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is kowtows, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from kowtows 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 kowtows produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.