Hidden inside slowdown sit lowdowns and slowdown, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lowdowns and slowdown tie for the highest Scrabble score from slowdown at 15 points. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in slowdown: one comes from rearranging its letters, and slowdown itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lowdowns and slowdown, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling slowdown produces exactly one seven-letter word: lowdown. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slowdown. If a familiar word is all you need, start with woods. For points, the strongest plays are downs, wolds, and woods — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in slowdown produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with down, owls, owns, slow, snow, sold, and solo. For points, the strongest play is wows — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling slowdown turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with low, now, old, owl, own, son, and won. For points, the strongest play is wow — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slowdown. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, ow, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ow 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 slowdown and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
slowdown 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for slowdown. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
slowdown is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slowdown unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lowdowns and slowdown, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from slowdown 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 slowdown produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 11 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.