stowaways needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 103 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stowaways is the highest-scoring word from stowaways, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 103 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in stowaways — and it is stowaways itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stowaways. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are stowaway and towaways, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling stowaways produces exactly one seven-letter word: towaway. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling stowaways produces exactly one six-letter word: satays. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stowaways. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stays. For points, the strongest play is sways — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in stowaways produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with away, says and soya. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including away, ways and sway.
Unscrambling stowaways turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, sat and saw. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including way, wow and yow.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stowaways. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and aw. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including aw, ay and ow.
Swap a single tile in stowaways and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
stowaways 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 stowaways. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
stowaways is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stowaways unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is stowaways, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from stowaways 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 stowaways produce 103 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 14 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.