adown needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adown is the highest-scoring word from adown, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in adown — and it is adown itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in adown produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dawn, down, and wand. For points, the strongest plays are dawn, down, wand, and woad — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling adown turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, now, own, and won. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dow, and wad — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adown. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, aw, do, no, on, and ow. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ow, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 six-letter word can be made using all the letters in adown plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in adown and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
adown is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
adown is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing adown unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is adown, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from adown earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in adown produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 5 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.