What DOWNING Means
DOWNING is a form of DOWN, which 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
DOWNING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 O1 W4 N1 I1 N1 G2.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In DOWNING
63 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.
6 letter words (5)
5 letter words (5)
4 letter words (17)
3 letter words (23)
2 letter words (13)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.