Hidden inside swallower sit reswallow, swallower, and wallowers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 213 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reswallow, swallower, and wallowers tie for the highest Scrabble score from swallower at 15 points. The top 10 of 213 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in swallower: two come from rearranging its letters, and swallower itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are reswallow, swallower, and wallowers, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in swallower. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is wallower, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in swallower produces 3 valid seven-letter words. 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.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling swallower turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allows, lowers, and slower. For points, the strongest plays are wallow and wowser — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in swallower. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allow, laser, loser, lower, roles, rolls, and solar. For points, the strongest play is wawls — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in swallower produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, ears, eras, laws, lose, oral, and owes. For points, the strongest plays are wawl, waws, and wows — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling swallower turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, are, ear, era, law, low, and owe. For points, the strongest plays are waw and wow — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in swallower. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, aw, ew, or, ow, so, and we. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, ow, we, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in swallower plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in swallower and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
swallower 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.
swallower is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing swallower unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reswallow, swallower, and wallowers, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from swallower 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 swallower produce 213 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.