thrower needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble WHORERT, WHOTERR or WORHTER and you get the same 7 letters as THROWER: so the words from THROWER listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
thrower is the highest-scoring word from thrower, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in thrower — and it is thrower itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling thrower produces exactly one six-letter word: rhetor. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thrower. If a familiar word is all you need, start with other, threw and throw. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including threw, throw and worth.
Rearranging the letters in thrower produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hero, tore, and wore. For points, the strongest plays are howe, thew, and whet — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling thrower turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, hot and how. For points, the strongest plays are hew, how, and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thrower. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, ew and he. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including eh, ew and he.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in thrower plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in thrower and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
thrower 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 three senses for thrower. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
thrower is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing thrower unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is thrower, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from thrower 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 thrower produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 13 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.