Hidden inside owners sit owners, resown, rowens and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
owners, resown, rowens and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from owners at 9 points. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in owners: three come from rearranging its letters, and owners itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with owners. For points, the strongest plays are owners, resown, rowens, and worsen — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in owners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with owner, swore, sworn, and worse. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including owner, swore and sworn.
Rearranging the letters in owners produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with news, nose and ones. For points, 16 words tie at 7 points, including news, owes and owns.
Unscrambling owners turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with new, nor and now. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including new, now and owe.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in owners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, no and on. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
10 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in owners plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in owners 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.
owners 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 two senses for owners. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
owners is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing owners unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are owners, resown, rowens, and worsen, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from owners 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 owners produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.