shakedowns needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 499 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shakedowns is the highest-scoring word from shakedowns, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 499 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in shakedowns — and it is shakedowns itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shakedowns turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is shakedown, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shakedowns. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is hawknose, 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 shakedowns produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shadows. For points, the strongest plays are shanked and swanked — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shakedowns turns up 54 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with honked, season, shadow, shaken, shakes, showed, and snakes. For points, the strongest plays are hawked and howked — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 134 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shakedowns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, asked, dawns, desks, hands, heads, and honks. For points, the strongest plays are hawks and howks — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shakedowns produces 169 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asks, dawn, desk, does, done, down, and ends. For points, the strongest plays are hawk and howk — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shakedowns turns up 96 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, ash, ask, ass, end, and had. 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 32 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shakedowns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, an, as, aw, do, and eh. 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.
shakedowns 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in shakedowns carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for shakedowns. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
shakedowns is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shakedowns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shakedowns, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shakedowns 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 shakedowns produce 499 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 54 six-letter words, 134 five-letter words, 169 four-letter words, 96 three-letter words and 32 two-letter words.