Hidden inside downplays sit downplays and playdowns, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 304 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
downplays and playdowns tie for the highest Scrabble score from downplays at 18 points. The top 10 of 304 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in downplays: one comes from rearranging its letters, and downplays 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 downplays and playdowns, each worth 18 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 downplays. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are downplay, paydowns, and playdown, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in downplays produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is paydown, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling downplays turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is noways, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in downplays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dawns, lands, lawns, loads, loans, plans, and plays. For points, the strongest plays are waspy and yawps — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in downplays produces 123 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, lads, lady, land, laps, lawn, and laws. For points, the strongest play is yawp — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling downplays turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, any, day, lad, lap, and law. For points, the strongest plays are way, wyn, yaw, and yow — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in downplays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, aw, ay, do, and no. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ay, ow, oy, wo, ya, and yo — 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 downplays 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.
downplays 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 two senses for downplays. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
downplays is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing downplays unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are downplays and playdowns, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from downplays 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 downplays produce 304 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 123 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.