Hidden inside plower sit plower and replow, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 53 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble PERLOW, PLOEWR or PORWEL and you get the same 6 letters as PLOWER: so the words from PLOWER listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
plower and replow tie for the highest Scrabble score from plower at 11 points. The top 10 of 53 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in plower: one comes from rearranging its letters, and plower itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are plower and replow, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plower. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lower and power. For points, the strongest plays are power and prowl — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in plower produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pole, role, rope, and wore. For points, the strongest plays are plew, plow, prow, and welp — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling plower turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with low, owe and owl. For points, the strongest plays are pew and pow — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plower. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, or, ow, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in plower plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in plower and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
plower 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 2-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 plower. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
plower is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing plower unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are plower and replow, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from plower 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 plower produce 53 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.