down
Down commonly means to eat up completely, as with great appetite, bring down or defeat (an opponent), or shoot at and force to come down. As a noun, down can refer to 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), or (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil.
Length
4
Scrabble
8
WWF
9
Starts
DO
Ends
OWN
Difficulty
Easy
Dictionary
What Does “DOWN” Mean?
/daʊn/
down has 25 documented senses across adjective, noun, adverb, verb.
Adjective
9 sensesbeing 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”
extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
“the down staircase”
“the downward course of the stream”
Synonyms
becoming progressively lower
“the down trend in the real estate market”
being put out in a game of baseball
“two down in the bottom of the ninth”
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shut
“the shades were down”
not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
“we can't work because the computer is down”
filled with melancholy and despondency
“gloomy at the thought of what he had to face”
“gloomy predictions”
“a gloomy silence”
“took a grim view of the economy”
Noun
4 sensessoft fine feathers
(American football) a complete play to advance the football
“you have four downs to gain ten yards”
(usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
Synonyms
Adverb
6 sensesspatially 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”
Synonyms
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”
from an earlier time
“the story was passed down from father to son”
to a lower intensity
“he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black”
in an inactive or inoperative state
“the factory went down during the strike”
“the computer went down again”
Verb
6 sensesbring down or defeat (an opponent)
“The fighter managed to down his opponent”
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”
“The fighter managed to down his opponent”
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Vowels
1
Consonants
3
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Definition
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
Length
4 letters
Starts With
D
Ends With
N
Vowels
1
Consonants
3
Letters
D, O, W, N
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
Letter Breakdown
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★☆☆DOWN has a Scrabble score of 8. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆DOWN is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★★☆DOWN can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 4-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★★☆DOWN uses unique letters, giving more flexibility when checking possible anagrams and word game combinations.
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Unique Letters
4
Repeated Letters
0
Highest Value Letter
W
Letter Pattern
ABCD
CV Pattern
CVCC
Vowel Share
25%
Consonant Share
75%
Bigrams
DO, OW, WN
Trigrams
DOW, OWN
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