Unscramble TOWZE and you have 22 words, TOWZE itself among them: it scores 17 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, TOZE leads with 13 points. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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By length, the words from TOWZE split into 1 with 5 letters, 1 with 4, 10 with 3 and 10 with 2.
TOZE is the only one of the 4-letter words in TOWZE; it scores 13 points.
Keep every letter of TOWZE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with TO · ending in ZE · all 5-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by OWE, OWT, TEW, TOW, TWO, WET, WOE and WOT (6 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts TOWZE, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOWZE itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 22) | 17 | 22 | 14 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: TOWZE, TOZE, ZE, ZO and EWT, 5 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: OWT, EW and TE, 3 in all.
These 2 words take every letter of TOWZE plus a single extra one.