downsizes needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 22 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 235 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
downsizes is the highest-scoring word from downsizes, worth 22 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 235 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in downsizes — and it is downsizes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 22 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in downsizes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is downsize, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in downsizes 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 sozines, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling downsizes turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dozens and noises. For points, the strongest plays are winzes and wizens — each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in downsizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dines, dozen and noise. For points, the strongest plays are winze, wizen, wizes, and zowie — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in downsizes produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dine and does. For points, the strongest plays are doze and zeds — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling downsizes turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end and ids. For points, the strongest play is wiz — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in downsizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew and id. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in downsizes 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.
downsizes 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 three senses for downsizes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 22 points on a Scrabble board:
downsizes is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing downsizes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is downsizes, worth 22 points in Scrabble, and no other word from downsizes 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 downsizes produce 235 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.