Hidden inside strowing sit strowing and worsting, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 227 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
strowing and worsting tie for the highest Scrabble score from strowing at 12 points. The top 10 of 227 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in strowing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and strowing 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 strowing and worsting, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in strowing produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sorting. For points, the strongest plays are rowings, stowing, and trowing — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling strowing turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groins, string, strong, and towing. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including towing, rowing and sowing.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strowing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groin, grown and grows. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including grown, grows and owing.
Rearranging the letters in strowing produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grow, into and iron. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including grow, wigs and wing.
Unscrambling strowing turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with got, its and nor. For points, the strongest play is wig — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strowing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are ow and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in strowing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in strowing 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.
strowing 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
strowing is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing strowing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are strowing and worsting, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from strowing 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 strowing produce 227 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.