Hidden inside towers sit towers and worset, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
towers and worset tie for the highest Scrabble score from towers at 9 points. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in towers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and towers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with towers. For points, the strongest plays are towers and worset — 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 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in towers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with store, swore, tower, worse, worst, and wrote. For points, the strongest plays are resow, serow, sower, strew, strow, swore, tower, trews, trows, worse, worst, worts, wrest, and wrote — 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 towers produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with owes, rest, rose, rows, sore, sort, and stew. For points, the strongest plays are owes, owse, owts, rows, stew, stow, swot, tews, tows, trow, twos, wert, west, wets, woes, wore, wort, wost, and wots — 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 towers turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with owe, row, set, sew, toe, tow, and two. For points, the strongest plays are owe, owt, row, sew, sow, tew, tow, two, wet, woe, wos, and wot — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in towers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, or, ow, so, to, and we. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
Swap a single tile in towers 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.
towers 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in towers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for towers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
towers is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing towers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are towers and worset, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from towers 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 towers produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.