Hidden inside lower sit lower and rowel, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lower and rowel tie for the highest Scrabble score from lower at 8 points. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in lower: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lower itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lower. For points, the strongest plays are lower and rowel — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lower produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with role and wore. For points, the strongest plays are lowe and wore — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lower turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with low, owe, owl, and row. For points, the strongest plays are low, owe, owl, row, and woe — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lower. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, or, ow, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew, 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 lower and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
lower 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.
Dictionaries record six senses for lower. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
lower is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lower unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lower and rowel, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lower 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 lower produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.