tallow needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble TAOLLW, WATLLO or WAOLLT and you get the same 6 letters as TALLOW: so the words from TALLOW listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
tallow is the highest-scoring word from tallow, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in tallow — and it is tallow itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tallow produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tall, toll, and wall. For points, the strongest plays are alow, awol, and wall — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tallow turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, law and lot. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including law, low and owl.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tallow. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, aw, ow, and to. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ow, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tallow plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tallow 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.
tallow 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 one sense for tallow. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tallow is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tallow unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tallow, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tallow 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 tallow produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.