Hidden inside yarrow sit arrowy and yarrow, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arrowy and yarrow tie for the highest Scrabble score from yarrow at 12 points. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in yarrow: one comes from rearranging its letters, and yarrow 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 arrowy and yarrow, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yarrow. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: worry, 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 yarrow produces 4 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are awry and wary, 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 yarrow turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raw, row, war, way, and yow. For points, the strongest plays are way, wry, yaw, and yow — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yarrow. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aw, ay, or, ow, oy, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ay, ow, oy, wo, ya, and yo — 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 yarrow 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.
yarrow 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 one sense for yarrow. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
yarrow is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yarrow unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arrowy and yarrow, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from yarrow 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 yarrow produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.