What HOWEVER Means
- adverb: despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession)“although I'm a little afraid, however I'd like to try it”
- adverb: by contrast; on the other hand“the first part was easy; the second, however, took hours”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
HOWEVER is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 16 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as H4 O1 W4 E1 V4 E1 R1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 66 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of HOWEVER (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In HOWEVER
66 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.
6 letter words (2)
5 letter words (7)
4 letter words (20)
3 letter words (25)
2 letter words (12)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.