touchdown needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 113 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
touchdown is the highest-scoring word from touchdown, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 113 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in touchdown — and it is touchdown itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in touchdown 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 cutdown and woodcut, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling touchdown produces exactly one six-letter word: unhood. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in touchdown. If a familiar word is all you need, start with condo, count, donut, notch, touch, and wound. For points, the strongest plays are dunch, dutch, and nohow — each 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 touchdown produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with down, hood, hunt, onto, ouch, thou, and town. For points, the strongest play is chow — 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 touchdown turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cow, cut, dot, duh, hot, and how. For points, the strongest plays are how and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in touchdown. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ho, no, oh, on, ow, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, ow, uh, 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 touchdown plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in touchdown 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.
touchdown 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 two senses for touchdown. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
touchdown is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing touchdown unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is touchdown, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from touchdown 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 touchdown produce 113 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 16 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.