Hidden inside slowest sit slowest and swolest, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
slowest and swolest tie for the highest Scrabble score from slowest at 10 points. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in slowest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and slowest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with slowest. For points, the strongest plays are slowest and swolest — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling slowest turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lowest and towels. For points, the strongest plays are lowest, owlets, and towels — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slowest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loses, slots, slows, stews, stole, and towel. For points, the strongest plays are lowes, lowse, owlet, slews, slows, stews, stows, swole, swots, towel, welts, and wests — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in slowest produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lets, lose, loss, lost, lots, and owes. For points, the strongest plays are lowe, lows, owes, owls, owse, owts, sews, slew, slow, sows, stew, stow, swot, tews, tows, twos, welt, west, wets, woes, wost, and wots — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling slowest turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lot, low, owe, owl, set, and sew. For points, the strongest plays are low, owe, owl, owt, sew, sow, tew, tow, two, wet, woe, wos, and wot — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slowest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, ow, so, to, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in slowest 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.
slowest 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 slowest. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
slowest is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slowest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are slowest and swolest, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from slowest 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 slowest produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.