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DOWN
Scrabble Validity
✅ Valid Word
Valid in:
- SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK)
- TWL/NWL (Scrabble US)
- ENABLE (Words with Friends)
Tile Values
D
2
O
1
W
4
N
1
Σ
8
Definitions
Adverb
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position; "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up and skied down"; "prices plunged downward"
- away from a more central or a more northerly place; "was sent down to work at the regional office"; "worked down on the farm"; "came down for the wedding"; "flew down to Florida"
- paid in cash at time of purchase; "put ten dollars down on the necklace"
- in an inactive or inoperative state; "the factory went down during the strike"; "the computer went down again"
- to a lower intensity; "he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black"
- from an earlier time; "the story was passed down from father to son"
Noun
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football; "you have four downs to gain ten yards"
- soft fine feathers
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)
Verb
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing"
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- eat up completely, as with great appetite; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"; "The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them"
- drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work"
- cause to come or go down; "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet"
- shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
Adjective
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently); "we can't work because the computer is down"
- shut; "the shades were down"
- understood perfectly; "had his algebra problems down"
- being or moving lower in position or less in some value; "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today"
Source: Princeton WordNet 3.1
About the word DOWN
Yes, DOWN is a valid Scrabble word. If you play it, you can score 8 points in Scrabble. It is recognized as a playable word in the SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK), TWL/NWL (Scrabble US), ENABLE (Words with Friends) dictionaries.
DOWN is a 4-letter word. It contains 1 vowels and 3 consonants.