Hidden inside downcomes sit comedowns and downcomes, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 243 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
comedowns and downcomes tie for the highest Scrabble score from downcomes at 17 points. The top 10 of 243 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in downcomes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and downcomes 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 comedowns and downcomes, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in downcomes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are comedown and downcome, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in downcomes produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with condoes and condoms. For points, the strongest play is woodmen — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling downcomes turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with condom, condos, demons, second, and wooden. For points, the strongest play is cowmen — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in downcomes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with codes, comes, condo, cones, demon, dooms, and modes. For points, the strongest plays are cowed and mowed — 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 downcomes produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, come, cone, cons, cows, does, and done. For points, the strongest play is cwms — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling downcomes turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cow, end, men, moo, new, and now. For points, the strongest play is cwm — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in downcomes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew, me, no, on, ow, and so. For points, the strongest plays are 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 downcomes 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.
downcomes 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
downcomes is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing downcomes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are comedowns and downcomes, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from downcomes 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 downcomes produce 243 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.