stepdowns 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, 316 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stepdowns is the highest-scoring word from stepdowns, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 316 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in stepdowns — and it is stepdowns itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling stepdowns produces exactly one eight-letter word: stepdown. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in stepdowns produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are despots and twoness, each 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 stepdowns turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with posted, spends, stones, and tossed. For points, the strongest play is stowps — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stepdowns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nests, noses, notes, opens, owned, poets, and ponds. 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 stepdowns produces 118 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, news, nope, nose, note, and ones. For points, the strongest plays are pews, pows, pwns, spew, swop, and wept — 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 stepdowns turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, end, net, new, not, now, 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stepdowns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew, no, on, ow, so, and to. 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 stepdowns plus one additional letter.
stepdowns 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.
stepdowns is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stepdowns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is stepdowns, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from stepdowns 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 stepdowns produce 316 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 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 118 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.