Unscramble LOWDOWNS and you have 108 words, LOWDOWNS itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 15 points: DOWNLOWS and SLOWDOWN. The 8 letters split into 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
L12O1W4D2O1W4N12S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from LOWDOWNS by length: 3 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 3 with 6, 21 with 5, 39 with 4, 30 with 3 and 10 with 2.
Among the 4-letter words made with LOWDOWNS letters, WOWS leads with 10 points, then DOWL and DOWN on 8. SOON, WOOD and SOLD are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of LOWDOWNS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with LO · ending in NS · all 8-letter words
What LOWDOWNS means, then the 6 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept LOWDOWNS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOWDOWNS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 108) | 74 | 108 | 72 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
34 of the 108 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DOWNLOWS, DOWNLOW, SWOWND, LOWNDS, WOOLDS, DOWLS, LOWND, SOWND, WOOLD, DOWL, LOWNS, NOWLS and 22 more. 2 of the 108 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: ONOS and ONO.
Each word below uses all the letters of LOWDOWNS and one more.