downsize needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 192 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
downsize is the highest-scoring word from downsize, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 192 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in downsize — and it is downsize itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling downsize turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dozens. For points, the strongest plays are winzes and wizens — each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in downsize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dines, dozen, noise, owned, winds, wines, and zones. For points, the strongest plays are winze, wizen, wizes, and zowie — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in downsize produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dine, does, done, down, ends, and news. For points, the strongest plays are doze and zeds — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling downsize turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ids, new, now, one, and owe. For points, the strongest play is wiz — worth 15 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 downsize. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew, id, in, is, no, and on. 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.
Swap a single tile in downsize 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.
downsize 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 three senses for downsize. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
downsize is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing downsize unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is downsize, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from downsize 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 downsize produce 192 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 17 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.