showdowns needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 94 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
showdowns is the highest-scoring word from showdowns, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 94 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in showdowns — and it is showdowns itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling showdowns produces exactly one eight-letter word: showdown. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in showdowns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hoods, shown and shows. For points, the strongest play is dhows — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in showdowns produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with down, hood and owns. For points, the strongest play is dhow — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling showdowns turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with how, now and oho. For points, the strongest plays are how, who, and wow — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in showdowns 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.
showdowns 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 showdowns carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for showdowns. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
showdowns is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing showdowns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is showdowns, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from showdowns 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 showdowns produce 94 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.