Hidden inside owned sit endow and owned, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
endow and owned tie for the highest Scrabble score from owned at 9 points. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in owned: one comes from rearranging its letters, and owned itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with owned. For points, the strongest plays are endow and owned — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in owned produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with done, down, and owed. For points, the strongest plays are down, owed, and wend — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling owned turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, new and now. For points, the strongest plays are dew, dow, and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in owned. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew and no. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in owned 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.
owned 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 owned. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
owned is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing owned unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are endow and owned, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from owned 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 owned produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.