Hidden inside swallow sit swallow and wallows, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 52 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SOALLWW, SWLOAWL or SAWWOLL and you get the same 7 letters as SWALLOW: so the words from SWALLOW listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
swallow and wallows tie for the highest Scrabble score from swallow at 13 points. The top 10 of 52 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in swallow: one comes from rearranging its letters, and swallow itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with swallow. For points, the strongest plays are swallow and wallows — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in swallow. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allow and walls. For points, the strongest play is wawls — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in swallow produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, laws and owls. For points, the strongest plays are wawl, waws, and wows — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling swallow turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, law and low. For points, the strongest plays are waw and wow — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in swallow. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, aw, ow, and so. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ow, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in swallow plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in swallow 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.
swallow 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.
Dictionaries record eleven senses for swallow. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
swallow is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing swallow unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are swallow and wallows, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from swallow 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 swallow produce 52 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.