What SHAKEDOWN Means
- noun: initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state“the new industry's economic shakedown”
- noun: a very thorough search of a person or a place“a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs”
- adjective: intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system“a shakedown cruise”
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
SHAKEDOWN is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 20 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 H4 A1 K5 E1 D2 O1 W4 N1.
Words Made From The Letters In SHAKEDOWN
501 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.
8 letter words (1)
7 letter words (4)
6 letter words (38)
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5 letter words (126)
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4 letter words (189)
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3 letter words (111)
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2 letter words (32)
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