spelldown needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 250 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
spelldown is the highest-scoring word from spelldown, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 250 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in spelldown — and it is spelldown itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in spelldown produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: swollen, 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 spelldown turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with slowed. For points, the strongest play is plowed — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in spelldown. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dolls, lends, opens, owned, poles, ponds, and posed. For points, the strongest play is pwned — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in spelldown produces 101 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lend, lose, news, nope, nose, ones, and open. For points, the strongest plays are pews, plew, plow, pows, pwns, spew, swop, and welp — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling spelldown turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, led, low, new, now, old, and one. For points, the strongest plays are pew, pow, and pwn — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in spelldown. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew, no, on, ow, so, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, 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 spelldown plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in spelldown 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.
spelldown 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for spelldown. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
spelldown is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing spelldown unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is spelldown, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from spelldown 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 spelldown produce 250 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 101 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.