Hidden inside stowels 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.
STOWELS isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to SLOWEST and SWOLEST.
slowest and swolest tie for the highest Scrabble score from stowels at 10 points. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in stowels produces 2 valid seven-letter words. 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.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stowels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loses, slots and slows. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including slows, stews and towel.
Rearranging the letters in stowels produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lets and lose. For points, 22 words tie at 7 points, including owes, owls and sews.
Unscrambling stowels turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lot and low. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including low, owe and owl.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stowels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, ow and so. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in stowels plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in stowels 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 slowest and swolest, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stowels 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 stowels 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.