narrowish needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 224 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
narrowish is the highest-scoring word from narrowish, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 224 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in narrowish — and it is narrowish itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in narrowish produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with narrows. For points, the strongest plays are airshow and harrows — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling narrowish turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with narrow. For points, the strongest plays are harrow, rawish, whirra, and whirrs — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in narrowish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hairs, horns and irons. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including shown, shawn and whins.
Rearranging the letters in narrowish produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, hair and horn. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including show, wash and whoa.
Unscrambling narrowish turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ash and has. For points, the strongest plays are haw, how, wha, and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in narrowish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and as. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including ah, aw and ha.
Swap a single tile in narrowish and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
narrowish is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
narrowish is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing narrowish unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is narrowish, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from narrowish 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 narrowish produce 224 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.