nohow needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nohow is the highest-scoring word from nohow, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in nohow — and it is nohow itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nohow turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with how, now and oho. For points, the strongest plays are how and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in nohow 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.
nohow 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in nohow carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
nohow is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nohow unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is nohow, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from nohow 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 nohow produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.