Hidden inside allows sit allows and sallow, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
allows and sallow tie for the highest Scrabble score from allows at 9 points. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in allows: one comes from rearranging its letters, and allows itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allows. For points, the strongest plays are allows and sallow — 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 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allow and walls. For points, the strongest plays are allow, awols, and walls — 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 allows produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, laws, owls, slow, and wall. For points, the strongest plays are alow, awls, awol, laws, lows, owls, slaw, slow, and wall — 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 allows turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, law, low, owl, saw, and was. For points, the strongest plays are awl, law, low, owl, saw, sow, was, and wos — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allows. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in allows and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
allows 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 ten senses for allows. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
allows is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing allows unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are allows and sallow, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from allows 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 allows produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.