Hidden inside throws sit rowths, throws, whorts and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rowths, throws, whorts and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from throws at 12 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in throws: three come from rearranging its letters, and throws itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with throws. For points, the strongest plays are rowths, throws, whorts, and worths — 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in throws. If a familiar word is all you need, start with short, throw, worst, and worth. For points, the strongest plays are rowth, throw, whort, worth, and wroth — each 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 throws produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with host, rows, shot, show, sort, tows, and twos. For points, the strongest plays are hows and show — 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 throws turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hot, how, row, tho, tow, two, and who. For points, the strongest plays are how and who — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in throws. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ho, oh, or, ow, sh, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, ow, sh, 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 throws 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.
throws 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record twenty senses for throws. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
throws is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing throws unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rowths, throws, whorts, and worths, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from throws 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 throws produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.