Unscramble DOWNSHIFT and you have 213 words, DOWNSHIFT itself among them: it scores 19 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, FOWTHS and WHIFTS lead with 15 points. 9 letters: 2 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from DOWNSHIFT by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 7, 10 with 6, 55 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 26 with 2. None has 8 letters.
TOWNISH is the only one of the 7-letter words in DOWNSHIFT; it scores 13 points.
FOWTH, HOWFS and WHIFT are the top 5-letter words you get when you unscramble DOWNSHIFT, 14 points each. SHOWN, WIDTH and SHIFT will look familiar.
HOWF scores highest among the 4-letter words from DOWNSHIFT at 13 points, ahead of DHOW and DOWF on 11. FIND, INFO and SHOW are the ones most people know.
4 of 60 3-letter words in DOWNSHIFT tie at 9 points; none scores more. WHO, NOW and TWO will look familiar.
Keep every letter of DOWNSHIFT but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with DO · ending in FT · all 9-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with HOWFS (14 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept DOWNSHIFT, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOWNSHIFT itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 213) | 169 | 212 | 155 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 43 of them: FOWTHS, WHIFTS, FOWTH, WHIFT, SHOWD, DOWF, SOWTH, WHIOS, WISHT, WITHS, DOTISH, SOWF and 31 more. Words With Friends* skips 14 of them: WHOSIT, DIFS, DOHS, DOSH, SIDH, DIF, DOH, OWTS, DINOS, HOS, OWT, SHO and 2 more. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: FI.
This word takes every letter of DOWNSHIFT plus a single extra one.