Unscramble DOWNVOTE and you have 117 words, DOWNVOTE itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is VOWED, 12 points. 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
D2O1W4N12V45O1T1E1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from DOWNVOTE by length: 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 6, 15 with 5, 34 with 4, 47 with 3 and 17 with 2. None has 7 letters.
WOVE tops the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble DOWNVOTE at 10 points; next come DEVO and DOVE on 8. DOWN, NOTE and DONE will look familiar.
VOW scores highest among the 3-letter words from DOWNVOTE at 9 points, ahead of DEV and DEW on 7. NOT, NEW and ONE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of DOWNVOTE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with DO · ending in TE · all 8-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with VOWED (12 points).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
In Scrabble, yes: DOWNVOTE is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOWNVOTE itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 117) | 99 | 116 | 95 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
17 of the 117 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DOWNVOTE, WOONED, DEVOT, NOWED, DEVO, DOWT, WOON, WOOT, EVO, EWT, DOEN, DOON and 5 more. 4 of the 117 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: OWT, EW, ONO and TE. 1 of the 117 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: VON.
These 2 words take every letter of DOWNVOTE plus a single extra one.