Unscramble OWRES and you have 49 words, OWRES itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. OWRES has 6 anagrams here, RESOW, SEROW, SOWER, SWORE, WEROS and WORSE, scoring 8 like OWRES itself. The best shorter words score 7: 9 of them, ROWS, WORE and WOES included. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Counting the words from OWRES by length: 7 with 5 letters, 15 with 4, 16 with 3 and 11 with 2.
Trade one tile of OWRES for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 5-letter words: starting with OW · ending in ES · all 5-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with RESOW, SEROW, SOWER, SWORE and WORSE (8 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble UK accepts OWRES, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| OWRES itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 49) | 40 | 49 | 39 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
9 of the 49 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: OWRES, WEROS, OWER, OWRE, REWS, WERO, REW, REOS and REO. 1 of the 49 answers is missing from Words With Friends*: EW.
These 12 words take every letter of OWRES plus a single extra one.