pushdown needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 148 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pushdown is the highest-scoring word from pushdown, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 148 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in pushdown — and it is pushdown itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pushdown turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pounds and wounds. For points, the strongest plays are hounds, hundos, swound, unshod, 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 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pushdown. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ponds, pound, shown, sound, whups, and wound. For points, the strongest plays are whops and whups — each 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 pushdown produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with down, hops, owns, pond, push, shop, and show. For points, the strongest plays are whop and whup — each 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 pushdown turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with duh, hop, how, now, own, son, and sun. For points, the strongest plays are how and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pushdown. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ho, no, oh, on, ow, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, ow, sh, uh, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in pushdown plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pushdown 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.
pushdown 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.
pushdown is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pushdown unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pushdown, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pushdown 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 pushdown produce 148 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.