Hidden inside slowing sit lowings and slowing, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lowings and slowing tie for the highest Scrabble score from slowing at 11 points. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in slowing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and slowing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with slowing. For points, the strongest plays are lowings and slowing — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling slowing turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with losing. For points, the strongest plays are lowing and sowing — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slowing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lions, owing, swing, and wings. For points, the strongest plays are glows, gowns, owing, swing, and wings — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in slowing produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lion, logs, long, oils, owls, owns, and sign. For points, the strongest plays are glow, gown, swig, wigs, and wing — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling slowing turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with log, low, now, oil, owl, own, and sin. For points, the strongest play is wig — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slowing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, no, on, ow, and so. 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 slowing and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
slowing 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for slowing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
slowing is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slowing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lowings and slowing, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from slowing 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 slowing produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.