pushdowns needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 175 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pushdowns is the highest-scoring word from pushdowns, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 175 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pushdowns — and it is pushdowns itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pushdowns produces exactly one eight-letter word: pushdown. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pushdowns produces exactly one seven-letter word: swounds. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pushdowns turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pounds, sounds, 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 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pushdowns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ponds, pound, shops, shown, shows, snows, and sound. 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 pushdowns produces 66 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 pushdowns turns up 54 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 pushdowns. 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.
Swap a single tile in pushdowns 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.
pushdowns 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.
pushdowns is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pushdowns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pushdowns, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pushdowns 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 pushdowns produce 175 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.