Hidden inside reflows sit flowers, fowlers, reflows and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 117 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
flowers, fowlers, reflows and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from reflows at 13 points. The top 10 of 117 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in reflows: three come from rearranging its letters, and reflows itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flowers. For points, the strongest plays are flowers, fowlers, reflows, and wolfers — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reflows turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flower, lowers, and slower. For points, the strongest plays are flower, fowler, reflow, and wolfer — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reflows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flows, loser and lower. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including flows, flews and fowls.
Rearranging the letters in reflows produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flew, flow and lose. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including flew, flow and wolf.
Unscrambling reflows turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, few and for. For points, the strongest play is few — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reflows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, of and or. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including ew, of and ow.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in reflows plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reflows and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
reflows 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.
reflows is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reflows unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are flowers, fowlers, reflows, and wolfers, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reflows 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 reflows produce 117 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.