shootdown needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 131 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shootdown is the highest-scoring word from shootdown, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 131 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in shootdown — and it is shootdown itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shootdown produces exactly one seven-letter word: sonhood. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shootdown produces exactly one six-letter word: tondos. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shootdown. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hoods, shoot, shown, stood, towns, and woods. For points, the strongest play is dhows — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shootdown produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dots, down, hood, host, onto, owns, and shoo. For points, the strongest play is dhow — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shootdown turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, hot, how, not, now, oho, and own. 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shootdown. 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, 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 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in shootdown plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shootdown 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.
shootdown is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
shootdown is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shootdown unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shootdown, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shootdown 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 shootdown produce 131 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 21 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.