Hidden inside vowels sit vowels and wolves, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 55 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
vowels and wolves tie for the highest Scrabble score from vowels at 12 points. The top 10 of 55 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in vowels: one comes from rearranging its letters, and vowels itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wolves. For points, the strongest plays are vowels and wolves — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vowels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loves and solve. For points, the strongest play is vowel — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in vowels produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lose, love, owes, owls, slow, and vows. For points, the strongest plays are vows and wove — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling vowels turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with low, owe, owl, sew, and vow. For points, the strongest play is vow — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in vowels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, ow, so, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, 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 vowels and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
vowels 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for vowels. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
vowels is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing vowels unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are vowels and wolves, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from vowels 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 vowels produce 55 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.