Hidden inside downers sit downers and wonders, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 183 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
downers and wonders tie for the highest Scrabble score from downers at 11 points. The top 10 of 183 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in downers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and downers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wonders. For points, the strongest plays are downers and wonders — each 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 downers turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drowns, owners, and wonder. For points, the strongest plays are dowers, downer, dowser, drowns, drowse, endows, snowed, and wonder — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in downers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drown, nerds, owned, owner, sword, swore, and sworn. For points, the strongest plays are dower, downs, dowse, drown, endow, owned, rowed, sowed, sword, wends, and words — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in downers produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, done, down, drew, ends, nerd, and news. For points, the strongest plays are dews, down, dows, drew, owed, weds, wend, and word — 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 downers turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, new, nor, now, one, owe, and own. For points, the strongest plays are dew, dow, and wed — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in downers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew, no, on, or, 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 downers and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
downers 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for downers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
downers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing downers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are downers and wonders, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from downers 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 downers produce 183 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.