fallow needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble FAWLLO, WLLAOF or AOWFLL and you get the same 6 letters as FALLOW: so the words from FALLOW listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
fallow is the highest-scoring word from fallow, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in fallow — and it is fallow itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fallow produces exactly one five-letter word: allow. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fallow produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fall, flaw and flow. For points, the strongest plays are flaw, flow, fowl, and wolf — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in fallow plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in fallow 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.
fallow 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 three senses for fallow. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
fallow is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fallow unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is fallow, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fallow 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 fallow produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 11 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.