Hidden inside stowaway sit stowaway and towaways, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stowaway and towaways tie for the highest Scrabble score from stowaway at 17 points. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in stowaway: one comes from rearranging its letters, and stowaway itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are stowaway and towaways, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling stowaway produces exactly one seven-letter word: towaway. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling stowaway produces exactly one five-letter word: satay. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in stowaway produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with away, soya and stay. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including away, ways and sway.
Unscrambling stowaway turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sat, saw and say. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including way, wow and yow.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stowaway. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and aw. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including aw, ay and ow.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in stowaway plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in stowaway and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
stowaway 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 stowaway. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
stowaway is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stowaway unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stowaway and towaways, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stowaway 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 stowaway produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 30 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.