Hidden inside stowage sit stowage and towages, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 154 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stowage and towages tie for the highest Scrabble score from stowage at 11 points. The top 10 of 154 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in stowage: one comes from rearranging its letters, and stowage itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are stowage and towages, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling stowage produces exactly one six-letter word: towage. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stowage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gates, goats and stage. For points, the strongest plays are swage and wages — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in stowage produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, east and eats. For points, the strongest plays are swag, wage, and wags — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling stowage turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ate. For points, the strongest play is wag — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stowage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and aw. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including aw, ew and ow.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in stowage plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in stowage 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.
stowage 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 three senses for stowage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
stowage is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stowage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stowage and towages, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stowage 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 stowage produce 154 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 16 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.