Hidden inside tow sit owt, tow, two and 1 other, three-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 7 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
owt, tow, two and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from tow at 6 points. The top 7 of 7 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 three-letter words hiding in tow: three come from rearranging its letters, and tow itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tow and two. For points, the strongest plays are owt, tow, two, 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 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tow. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ow and to. For points, the strongest plays are 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 tow and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
tow 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 tow carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for tow. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
tow is one of four three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tow unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are owt, tow, two, and wot, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tow 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 tow produce 7 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.