Hidden inside towages sit stowage and towages, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 154 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stowage and towages tie for the highest Scrabble score from towages at 11 points. The top 10 of 154 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in towages: one comes from rearranging its letters, and towages itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are stowage and towages, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling towages produces exactly one six-letter word: towage. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in towages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gates, goats and stage. For points, the strongest plays are swage and wages — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in towages produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, east and eats. For points, the strongest plays are swag, wage, and wags — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling towages turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ate. For points, the strongest play is wag — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in towages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and aw. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including aw, ew and ow.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in towages plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in towages 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.
towages 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 one sense for towages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
towages is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing towages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stowage and towages, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from towages 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 towages produce 154 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 16 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.