Unscramble DOWNLESS to get 218 words. DOWNLESS itself is a real word: 12 points on a Scrabble board, 14 in Words With Friends. The 8 letters split into 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
D2O1W4N12L12E1S1S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from DOWNLESS split into 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 7, 25 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 51 with 3 and 18 with 2.
Of the 25 6-letter words made with DOWNLESS letters, 13 score 10 points, the group's best. LESSON and SLOWED are the ones most people know.
16 of 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble DOWNLESS tie at 9 points; none scores more. OWNED, NODES and SENDS will look familiar.
Among 60 4-letter words from DOWNLESS, the top score is 8, reached by 10. NEWS, DOES and SEND are the familiar ones.
DEW, DOW and WED share the top score of 7 among the 3-letter words made with DOWNLESS letters. NEW, ONE and NOW are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of DOWNLESS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with DO · ending in SS · all 8-letter words
DOWNLESS first, then short meanings for the 6 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
In Scrabble, yes: DOWNLESS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOWNLESS itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 218) | 165 | 218 | 160 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
53 of the 218 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DOWLNES, DOWLES, DOWLNE, LOWNDS, LOWNED, LOWSED, SOWLED, SOWNDS, SOWSED, DOWLE, DOWLS, LOWND and 41 more. 5 of the 218 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: DOWNLESS, SWOLE, EW, OLDE and EDS.
With one more tile, the letters of DOWNLESS spell the words below.