Unscramble LOWLIGHTS and you have 199 words, LOWLIGHTS itself among them: it scores 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is LOWLIGHT, 15 points. The 9 letters split into 2 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 LOWLIGHTS split into 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 1 with 7, 16 with 6, 49 with 5, 60 with 4, 51 with 3 and 20 with 2.
LOWLIGHT is the only one of the 8-letter words made with LOWLIGHTS letters; it scores 15 points.
Just 1 of the 7-letter words in LOWLIGHTS: WHOLIST, for 13 points.
The 5-letter words you get when you unscramble LOWLIGHTS are led by WHIGS and WIGHT, 12 points each. STILL, LIGHT and HILLS are the familiar ones.
WHIG tops the 4-letter words made with LOWLIGHTS letters at 11 points; next come HOWL and HOWS on 10. WILL, SHOW and WISH will look familiar.
The 3-letter words you get when you unscramble LOWLIGHTS are led by HOW and WHO, 9 points each. ITS, TWO and LOW are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of LOWLIGHTS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with LO · ending in TS · all 9-letter words
What LOWLIGHTS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. LOWLIGHTS is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOWLIGHTS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 199) | 160 | 199 | 145 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
39 of the 199 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: WHOLIST, THOWLS, SOWTH, THOWL, WHIOS, WISHT, WITHS, WHIO, WHOT, GOSHT, GOWLS, ILLTHS and 27 more. 15 of the 199 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: WHOSIT, GOTHS, SHOGI, GOTH, OWTS, HOS, OWT, SHO, SOH, LILOS, GIS, GOS and 3 more.