Hidden inside slowness sit slowness and snowless, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 107 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
slowness and snowless tie for the highest Scrabble score from slowness at 11 points. The top 10 of 107 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in slowness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and slowness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are slowness and snowless, each 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 slowness produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lessons. For points, the strongest play is lowness — 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 slowness turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lesson and losses. For points, the strongest play is sowens — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slowness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loses, noses, slows, and snows. For points, the strongest plays are enows, lowes, lowse, owsen, slews, slows, snows, and swole — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in slowness produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lose, loss, news, nose, ones, and owes. For points, the strongest plays are enow, lowe, lown, lows, news, nows, owes, owls, owns, owse, sewn, sews, slew, slow, snow, sown, sows, wens, woes, and wons — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling slowness turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with low, new, now, one, owe, owl, and own. For points, the strongest plays are low, new, now, owe, owl, own, sew, sow, wen, woe, won, and wos — each worth 6 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 slowness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, no, on, 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 slowness and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
slowness 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 slowness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
slowness is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slowness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are slowness and snowless, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from slowness 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 slowness produce 107 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.