Hidden inside lowish sit lowish and owlish, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lowish and owlish tie for the highest Scrabble score from lowish at 12 points. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in lowish: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lowish itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lowish and owlish, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling lowish produces exactly one five-letter word: howls. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lowish produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oils, owls, show, slow, soli, and wish. For points, the strongest plays are howl, hows, show, and wish — 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 lowish turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, how, low, oil, owl, and who. For points, the strongest plays are how and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lowish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, ho, is, oh, ow, sh, and so. For points, the strongest plays are hi, ho, oh, ow, sh, 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 lowish 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.
lowish 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 lowish carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
lowish is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lowish unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lowish and owlish, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lowish 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 lowish produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 12 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.