What BOWS Means
BOWS is a form of BOW, which 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
BOWS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 O1 W4 S1.
Anagrams of BOWS (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In BOWS
12 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.
3 letter words (6)
2 letter words (6)
Longer Words Containing BOWS
BOWS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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