markdowns needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 317 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
markdowns is the highest-scoring word from markdowns, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 317 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in markdowns — and it is markdowns itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in markdowns. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is markdown, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in markdowns 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 word is workman, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling markdowns turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drowns and random. For points, the strongest play is kormas — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 76 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in markdowns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with damns, dawns, dorks, dorms, drank, drawn, and draws. For points, the strongest play is dawks — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in markdowns produces 118 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, damn, dark, dawn, dork, dorm, and down. For points, the strongest play is dawk — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling markdowns turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, arm, ask, mad, man, and nor. For points, the strongest play is wok — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in markdowns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, as, aw, do, and no. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 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 markdowns 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.
markdowns 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
markdowns is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing markdowns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is markdowns, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from markdowns 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 markdowns produce 317 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 76 five-letter words, 118 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.