Hidden inside lowered sit lowered and roweled, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lowered and roweled tie for the highest Scrabble score from lowered at 11 points. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in lowered: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lowered itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lowered. For points, the strongest plays are lowered and roweled — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lowered turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lewder, reweld, welder, and weldor, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lowered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lower, older, and world. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including world, dowel and dower.
Rearranging the letters in lowered produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, drew and lord. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including drew, owed and weed.
Unscrambling lowered turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with led, low and old. For points, the strongest plays are dew, dow, and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lowered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew and or. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
10 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in lowered plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lowered 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.
lowered 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 one sense for lowered. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
lowered is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lowered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lowered and roweled, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lowered 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 lowered produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.