BOWER is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BOWER is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BOWER?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BOWER is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BOWER
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BOWER scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BOWER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What does BOWER mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
A shady resting place enclosed by overhanging trees or trained branches.
A bower is built from growing plants rather than timber, so it belongs to gardens and old poetry more than to modern building: a rose bower, a leafy bower at the end of a path. Older writing also used bower for a lady's private chamber, a sense now confined to romances and ballads.
How BOWER is used
Somewhat literary; common in garden writing and in older poetry.
- They sat talking in the bower until the light failed.
- A rose bower shaded the bench by the pond.
- The garden plan puts a bower at the far corner.
- In the old tale the princess kept to her bower all winter.
- Ivy had trained itself into a natural bower over the gate.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BOWER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BOWER
9 longer words begin with BOWER.
Words ending in BOWER
3 words end in BOWER. Useful as a back hook: play BOWER onto a word already on the board.
Words with BOWER inside
9 words contain BOWER in the middle. Words that start with BOWER are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BOWER
Common questions about BOWER
- Is BOWER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BOWER, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BOWER worth?
- BOWER is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BOWER mean?
- A shady resting place enclosed by overhanging trees or trained branches.
- What letters can be added to BOWER?
- BOWER takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BOWER:
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