What BOW Means
- noun: a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces
- noun: a slightly curved piece of resilient wood with taut horsehair strands; used in playing certain stringed instruments
- verb: bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head“He bowed before the King”
- verb: yield to another's wish or opinion“The government bowed to the military pressure”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BOW is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 O1 W4.
Words Made From The Letters In BOW
4 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
2 letter words (4)
Longer Words Containing BOW
BOW appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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