Jumble solved
Is DEATHBLOW a word? Yes.
DEATHBLOW is a valid word in the Scrabble dictionary — 9 letters, worth 18 points before any premium squares. It rearranges into 1 anagram, with 341 words hidden inside it.
- Total words
- 341
- Full anagrams
- 1
- Longest answer
- 9 letters
- Vowels : consonants
- 3 : 6
To solve the scramble by hand, set the 3 vowels (E, A, O) aside first, then try common beginnings and endings — re-, un-, -ing, -ed, -er — against the 6 remaining consonants (D, T, H, B, L, W).
Anagrams of DEATHBLOW
One word uses all 9 letters:
- deathblow
9-letter words
1 word found8-letter words
1 word found- bolthead14
7-letter words
8 words found6-letter words
27 words found- behowl14
- howled13
- thawed13
- whaled13
- bathed12
- bawled12
- behold12
- blawed12
- blowed12
- bowled12
- hotbed12
- howlet12
- wealth12
- daleth10
- haloed10
+ 12 more 6-letter words
5-letter words
57 words found+ 42 more 5-letter words
4-letter words
119 words found+ 104 more 4-letter words
3-letter words
96 words found+ 81 more 3-letter words
2-letter words
32 words found+ 17 more 2-letter words
Words hidden inside DEATHBLOW
Without moving a single letter, reading deathblow straight through uncovers 5 shorter words — death, blow, eath, eat, low. The longest unbroken run is death.
Related jumbles to try
Shorter words inside DEATHBLOW — solve each on its own:
Add one letter to DEATHBLOW
Slot in one more tile — any letter — and deathblow opens up 1 10-letter word. Handy when a puzzle gives you a blank or an extra square.
Best words for tile games
Playing Scrabble or Words with Friends? These finds carry the highest tile values (before any bonus squares).
Letter breakdown
Total Letters
9
Distinct
9
Vowels
33%
E, A, O
Consonants
67%
D, T, H, B, L, W
Browse more word lists
Explore every word of a given length — each links to its anagrams and solution.
Practise your unscrambling
Unscrambling gets faster with reps — these two are built for that.
Solving DEATHBLOW: common questions
How do you unscramble the letters deathblow?
Rearranging the 9 letters in deathblow produces 341 valid words in total. A quick way to crack a scramble is to pull the vowels out first, then test familiar beginnings and endings (such as re-, un-, -ing, -ed and -er) against the consonants that are left. That approach lands the 9-letter answer deathblow here. Every arrangement below is checked against a standard word list, so anything listed is a real word.
Does deathblow have any anagrams?
Using all 9 letters, deathblow rearranges into exactly one word: deathblow.
What is the longest word you can make from deathblow?
The longest solution is deathblow at 9 letters — it uses the most tiles of any word here.
What are the easiest short words from deathblow?
Short answers are the quickest to spot: deathblow yields ado, alb, ale, alt, ate, awe, awl, bad, bae and bah. Two- and three-letter words are handy for warming up, for tricky racks, and for hooking onto letters already on the board in games like Scrabble and Words with Friends.
Which word from deathblow scores best in Scrabble or Words with Friends?
If you are playing a tile game, deathblow is the top scorer from deathblow at 18 points, followed by bowhead (16), bolthead (14) and towhead (14). Scores depend on the board, but these are the highest face values before any bonus squares.
What smaller words are hidden inside deathblow?
Read left to right without moving any letters and deathblow already contains 5 shorter words: death, blow, eath, eat and low. The longest run of consecutive letters that spells a word is death. Because this depends on the exact order, each spelling of the same letters hides a different set.