Unscramble HANDTOWELS and you have 329 words, HANDTOWELS itself among them: it scores 17 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. It has 10 letters, 3 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from HANDTOWELS split into 1 with 10 letters, 1 with 9, 6 with 8, 40 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 41 with 2.
HANDTOWEL is the only one of the 9-letter words made with HANDTOWELS letters; it scores 16 points.
4 of 40 7-letter words from HANDTOWELS tie at 14 points; none scores more. HANDLES, HANDSET and WETLAND will look familiar.
60 6-letter words you get when you unscramble HANDTOWELS; 8 of them share the top score of 13. HANDLE, HOSTED and SHOWED are everyday picks.
DHOWS, HAWED and SHOWD are the top 5-letter words you get when you unscramble HANDTOWELS, 12 points each. WHOLE, DEATH and SHOWN will look familiar.
Among the 4-letter words from HANDTOWELS, DHOW leads with 11 points, then HAWS and HEWN on 10. SHOW, DOWN and HAND are the familiar ones.
5 of 60 3-letter words in HANDTOWELS tie at 9 points; none scores more. NEW, HAS and WHO will look familiar.
Keep every letter of HANDTOWELS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with HA · ending in LS · all 10-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by TOWHEADS (15 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
HANDTOWELS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANDTOWELS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 329) | 265 | 329 | 244 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 64 of them: HANDTOWELS, HANDTOWEL, SOWTHED, AWHETOS, HAWSED, THOWELS, AWHETO, SHOWD, THEOWS, THOWEL, THOWLS, WASHEN and 52 more. Words With Friends* skips 21 of them: WHATSO, DWALES, ENDASH, LAWNED, SHWA, DOSHA, DWALE, AHED, DOHS, DOSH, ODAH, DOH and 9 more.