takedowns needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 470 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
takedowns is the highest-scoring word from takedowns, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 470 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in takedowns — and it is takedowns itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling takedowns produces exactly one eight-letter word: takedown. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in takedowns produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donates. For points, the strongest play is swanked — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling takedowns turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donate, skated, soaked, wanted, and wasted. For points, the strongest play is wanked — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 119 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in takedowns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asked, dates, dawns, knots, knows, naked, and notes. For points, the strongest plays are dawks and waked — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in takedowns produces 178 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, swan, tads, take, tank, tans, and task. For points, the strongest play is dawk — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling takedowns turns up 102 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, ant, ask, ate, dot, and eat. For points, the strongest play is wok — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in takedowns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, aw, do, and ew. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 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 takedowns plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in takedowns 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.
takedowns 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for takedowns. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
takedowns is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing takedowns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is takedowns, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from takedowns 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 takedowns produce 470 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 119 five-letter words, 178 four-letter words, 102 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.