Hidden inside downturn sit downturn and turndown, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
downturn and turndown tie for the highest Scrabble score from downturn at 12 points. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in downturn: one comes from rearranging its letters, and downturn itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are downturn and turndown, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling downturn produces exactly one seven-letter word: rundown. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling downturn turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is unworn, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in downturn. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donut, drown, round, and wound. For points, the strongest plays are drown and wound — 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 downturn produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with down, torn, tour, town, turn, undo, and word. For points, the strongest plays are down 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 downturn turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, nor, not, now, nun, nut, and our. For points, the strongest plays are dow and wud — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in downturn. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, or, ow, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ow 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 downturn and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
downturn 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for downturn. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
downturn is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing downturn unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are downturn and turndown, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from downturn 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 downturn produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.