Hidden inside swallowers sit reswallows and swallowers, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 288 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reswallows and swallowers tie for the highest Scrabble score from swallowers at 16 points. The top 10 of 288 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in swallowers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and swallowers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are reswallows and swallowers, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling swallowers turns up 3 nine-letter words. 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 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in swallowers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with swallows. For points, the strongest plays are swallows and wallower — each 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 swallowers produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with swallow. For points, the strongest plays are swallow, wallows, and wowsers — 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 swallowers turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allows, lasers, losers, lowers, slower, swears, and swells. 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 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in swallowers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allow, laser, loser, loses, lower, roles, and rolls. 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 swallowers produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, ears, eras, laws, less, lose, and loss. 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 swallowers turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, are, ass, ear, era, law, and low. 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 swallowers. 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.
swallowers 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.
swallowers is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing swallowers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reswallows and swallowers, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from swallowers 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 swallowers produce 288 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.