Hidden inside downloads sit downloads and woodlands, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 167 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
downloads and woodlands tie for the highest Scrabble score from downloads at 14 points. The top 10 of 167 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in downloads: one comes from rearranging its letters, and downloads itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with downloads. For points, the strongest plays are downloads and woodlands — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in downloads. If a familiar word is all you need, start with download. For points, the strongest plays are download and woodland — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling downloads produces exactly one seven-letter word: onloads. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling downloads turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is woalds, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in downloads. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dawns, lands and lawns. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including dawns, wands and woods.
Rearranging the letters in downloads produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adds, also and dads. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including dawn, down and wand.
Unscrambling downloads turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, ads and and. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dow, and wad — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in downloads. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ow, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in downloads plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in downloads 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.
downloads 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 2-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 downloads. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
downloads is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing downloads unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are downloads and woodlands, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from downloads 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 downloads produce 167 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.