Hidden inside downturns sit downturns and turndowns, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 208 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
downturns and turndowns tie for the highest Scrabble score from downturns at 13 points. The top 10 of 208 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in downturns: one comes from rearranging its letters, and downturns 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 downturns and turndowns, each worth 13 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 downturns. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are downturn, rundowns, 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.
Rearranging the letters in downturns produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rundown and sundown, 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 downturns turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donuts, drowns, rounds, and wounds. For points, the strongest plays are drowns, swound, and wounds — 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 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in downturns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donut, drown, round, sound, sword, sworn, and tours. For points, the strongest plays are downs, drown, sword, words, 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 downturns produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dots, down, dust, nuns, nuts, ours, and owns. For points, the strongest plays are down, dows, 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 downturns turns up 50 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in downturns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, or, ow, so, 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 downturns 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.
downturns 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 downturns. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
downturns is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing downturns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are downturns and turndowns, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from downturns 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 downturns produce 208 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.