longbow 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, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
longbow is the highest-scoring word from longbow, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in longbow — and it is longbow itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling longbow produces exactly one six-letter word: oblong. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in longbow produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blog, blow, bowl, and long. For points, the strongest plays are blow and bowl — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling longbow turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boo, bow and goo. For points, the strongest play is bow — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in longbow. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, no, on, and ow. For points, the strongest plays are ow and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in longbow plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in longbow 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.
longbow 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for longbow. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
longbow is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing longbow unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is longbow, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from longbow 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 longbow produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.