Unscramble DOWNBOUND and you have 70 words, DOWNBOUND itself among them: it scores 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
D2O1W4N12B34O1U12N12D2
Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from DOWNBOUND by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 7, 4 with 5, 20 with 4, 32 with 3 and 12 with 2. None has 8 or 6 letters.
There is a single one of the 7-letter words in DOWNBOUND: BUDWOOD, 14 points.
BOW scores highest among the 3-letter words you get when you unscramble DOWNBOUND at 8 points, ahead of DOW and WUD on 7. NOW, OWN and WON are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of DOWNBOUND but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with DO · ending in ND · all 9-letter words
DOWNBOUND first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
In Scrabble, yes: DOWNBOUND is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOWNBOUND itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 70) | 53 | 70 | 46 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DOWD, BUDO, NOWN, WOON, BOUN, DOB, BON, DOD, DOON, DOUN, OBO, DOO and 5 more, 17 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: DOWNBOUND, BUDWOOD, DOOB, DUNNO, NOOB, UDON and ONO, 7 in all.