Unscramble DOWDYISH and you have 99 words, DOWDYISH itself among them: it scores 19 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is HOWDY, 15 points. It has 8 letters, 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
D2O1W4D2Y43I1S1H43
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from DOWDYISH by length: 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 6, 14 with 5, 26 with 4, 37 with 3 and 18 with 2. None has 7 letters.
WHYS scores highest among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble DOWDYISH at 13 points, ahead of DHOW and WHID on 11. SHOW, WISH and DISH are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of DOWDYISH for another and you can spell these 4 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with DO · ending in SH · all 8-letter words
DOWDYISH first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. DOWDYISH is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOWDYISH itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 99) | 79 | 99 | 71 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 20 of them: SHOWD, WHIOS, DOWDS, WHIO, DOWD, SWY, DOYS, DOY, HOIS, DODS, HOI, ISH and 8 more. Words With Friends* skips 8 of them: DOHS, DOSH, SIDH, DOH, HOS, SHO, SOH and OI.