95 words come out when you unscramble BALLOWS, starting with BALLOWS itself: 12 in Scrabble, 15 in Words With Friends. BALLOW is the best of the shorter words, at 11 points. 7 letters: 2 vowels and 5 consonants. All 7 tiles of BALLOWS in one turn: 62 in Scrabble (12 + 50), 50 in Words With Friends (15 + 35).
B34A1L12L12O1W4S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from BALLOWS split into 1 with 7 letters, 3 with 6, 13 with 5, 36 with 4, 29 with 3 and 13 with 2.
Keep every letter of BALLOWS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with BA · ending in WS · all 7-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; BAWLS, BLAWS, BLOWS and BOWLS (10 points each) share the top spot.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts BALLOWS, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALLOWS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 95) | 86 | 95 | 83 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 9 of them: BALLOWS, BALLOW, ABLOW, SOWL, BAOS, BAO, OBS, OB and LOS. Words With Friends* skips 3 of them: OBAS, SOBA and OBA.
With one more tile, the letters of BALLOWS spell the words below.