Hidden inside tower sit tower and wrote, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tower and wrote tie for the highest Scrabble score from tower at 8 points. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in tower: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tower itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: tower and wrote, worth 8 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tower produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tore and wore. For points, the strongest plays are trow, wert, wore, and wort — 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 tower turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with owe, row, toe, tow, two, and wet. For points, the strongest plays are owe, owt, row, tew, tow, two, wet, woe, and wot — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tower. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, or, ow, to, 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 tower and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
tower 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 tower carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for tower. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
tower is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tower unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tower and wrote, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tower 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 tower produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.