cutdown needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cutdown is the highest-scoring word from cutdown, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in cutdown — and it is cutdown itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cutdown produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with down, town, and undo. For points, the strongest play is down — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cutdown turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cow and cut. For points, the strongest play is cow — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cutdown. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no and on. For points, the strongest plays are ow and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in cutdown plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cutdown and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
cutdown 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
cutdown is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cutdown unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cutdown, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cutdown 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 cutdown produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.