Hidden inside southaw sit outwash and washout, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
SOUTHAW isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to OUTWASH and WASHOUT.
outwash and washout tie for the highest Scrabble score from southaw at 13 points. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in southaw produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outwash and washout, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in southaw. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos, oaths, shout, and south. For points, the strongest plays are swath, thaws, and whats — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in southaw produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auto, hats and host. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including show, wash and what.
Unscrambling southaw turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, has and hat. For points, the strongest plays are haw, how, wha, and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in southaw. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and at. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including ah, aw and ha.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in southaw plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in southaw 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outwash and washout, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from southaw 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 southaw produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.