Hidden inside stows sit stows and swots, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 25 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stows and swots tie for the highest Scrabble score from stows at 8 points. The top 10 of 25 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in stows: one comes from rearranging its letters, and stows itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are stows and swots, 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 stows produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with toss, tows, and twos. For points, the strongest plays are owts, sows, stow, swot, tows, twos, 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 stows turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tow and two. For points, the strongest plays are owt, sow, tow, two, 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ow, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ow 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 stows and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
stows 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in stows carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for stows. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
stows is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stows unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stows and swots, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stows 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 stows produce 25 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.