DOWN is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. DOWN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept DOWN?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DOWN is to know. It scores 8 from 4 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DOWN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DOWN scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in DOWN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,212.
What does DOWN mean in Scrabble?
adverb
Towards or in a lower position.
Down is worn down from a phrase meaning off the hill, so the word contains the hill it descends. A separate down, meaning soft feathers, is an unrelated Old Norse borrowing.
How DOWN is used
Adverb, preposition, adjective and verb.
- They walked down and took the other path back.
- The word down is worn from a phrase about a hill.
- A quilt filled with down weighs almost nothing.
- Two downs on the same slope by different routes.
- The feather sense of down is a separate borrowing.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DOWN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with DOWN
Showing 24 of 183 words that begin with DOWN.
Words ending in DOWN
Showing 24 of 67 words that end in DOWN. Useful as a back hook: play DOWN onto a word already on the board.
Words with DOWN inside
Showing 24 of 81 words that contain DOWN somewhere in the middle. Words that start with DOWN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DOWN
Common questions about DOWN
- Is DOWN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts DOWN, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is DOWN worth?
- DOWN is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DOWN mean?
- Towards or in a lower position.
- What letters can be added to DOWN?
- DOWN takes 4 hooks: 1 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of DOWN:
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