downwardly needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 178 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
downwardly is the highest-scoring word from downwardly, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 178 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in downwardly — and it is downwardly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in downwardly. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are downward and drawdown, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in downwardly 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 wayworn, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling downwardly turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is waddly, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in downwardly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drawn, drown, and world. For points, the strongest plays are dowdy and waddy — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in downwardly produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dawn, down and draw. For points, the strongest plays are wady and wynd — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling downwardly turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, and and any. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including way, wow and yow.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in downwardly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and aw. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including aw, ay and ow.
downwardly 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 one sense for downwardly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
downwardly is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing downwardly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is downwardly, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from downwardly 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 downwardly produce 178 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.