Hidden inside beatdowns sit beatdowns and downbeats, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 493 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
beatdowns and downbeats tie for the highest Scrabble score from beatdowns at 15 points. The top 10 of 493 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in beatdowns: one comes from rearranging its letters, and beatdowns itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are beatdowns and downbeats, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in beatdowns. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are beatdown and downbeat, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in beatdowns produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donates. For points, the strongest plays are boasted and saboted — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling beatdowns turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donate, wanted, and wasted. For points, the strongest play is bowsed — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 118 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in beatdowns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bands, based, beans, beast, beats, bends, and boats. For points, the strongest plays are bawds and bowed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in beatdowns produces 192 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, bade, band, bans, base, bats, and bean. For points, the strongest play is bawd — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling beatdowns turns up 114 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, ant, ate, bad, ban, and bat. For points, the strongest plays are bow, wab, and web — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 32 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in beatdowns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, aw, be, and do. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, ow, we, 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.
Swap a single tile in beatdowns and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
beatdowns is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
beatdowns is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing beatdowns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are beatdowns and downbeats, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from beatdowns 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 beatdowns produce 493 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 118 five-letter words, 192 four-letter words, 114 three-letter words and 32 two-letter words.