What DOWN Means
- adjective: being or moving lower in position or less in some value“lay face down”
- adjective: extending or moving from a higher to a lower place“the down staircase”
- verb: drink down entirely“He downed three martinis before dinner”
- verb: eat up completely, as with great appetite“Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DOWN is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 O1 W4 N1.
Words Made From The Letters In DOWN
12 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
3 letter words (6)
2 letter words (6)
Longer Words Containing DOWN
DOWN appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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