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TOWS

4 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What TOWS Means

TOWS is a form of TOW, which means:

  1. noun: the act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope“the truck gave him a tow to the garage”
  2. verb: drag behind“Horses used to tow barges along the canal”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

TOWS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as T1 O1 W4 S1.

Anagrams of TOWS (6)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In TOWS

13 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 (7)

2 letter words (6)

Longer Words Containing TOWS

TOWS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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