Hidden inside tows sit owts, stow, swot and 4 others, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 19 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
owts, stow, swot and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from tows at 7 points. The top 10 of 19 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 four-letter words hiding in tows: six come from rearranging its letters, and tows itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tows and twos. For points, the strongest plays are owts, stow, swot, tows, twos, wost, and wots — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tows turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tow and two. For points, the strongest plays are owt, sow, tow, two, wos, 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ow, so, 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 tows and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
tows 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 tows carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for tows. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
tows is one of seven four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tows unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are owts, stow, swot, tows, twos, wost, and wots, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tows 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 tows produce 19 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.