Hidden inside naw sit awn, naw, and wan, three-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 6 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
awn, naw, and wan tie for the highest Scrabble score from naw at 6 points. The top 6 of 6 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 three-letter words hiding in naw: two come from rearranging its letters, and naw itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are awn, naw, and wan, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in naw and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
naw 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.
naw is one of three three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing naw unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are awn, naw, and wan, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from naw 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 naw produce 6 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.