eiderdown needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 216 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eiderdown is the highest-scoring word from eiderdown, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 216 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in eiderdown — and it is eiderdown itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eiderdown. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wondered. For points, the strongest plays are rewinded and wondered — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in eiderdown produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drowned. For points, 7 words tie at 12 points, including drowned, dowdier and dowered.
Unscrambling eiderdown turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denied, indeed and ridden. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including winded, downed and drownd.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eiderdown. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dined, diner and dried. For points, the strongest plays are dewed and dowed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in eiderdown produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deer and died. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including down, drew and owed.
Unscrambling eiderdown turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die and end. For points, the strongest plays are dew, dow, and wed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eiderdown. 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in eiderdown plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in eiderdown 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.
eiderdown 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 two senses for eiderdown. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
eiderdown is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing eiderdown unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is eiderdown, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from eiderdown 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 eiderdown produce 216 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.