Hidden inside barking sit barking and braking, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble BARGINK, GRABINK or KRIBANG and you get the same 7 letters as BARKING: so the words from BARKING listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
barking and braking tie for the highest Scrabble score from barking at 14 points. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in barking: one comes from rearranging its letters, and barking itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barking. For points, the strongest plays are barking and braking — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling barking turns up 3 six-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: baking, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in barking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brain and bring. For points, the strongest plays are brank and brink — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in barking produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bang, bank, bark, barn, brag, gain, and grab. For points, the strongest plays are bank, bark, birk, and kbar — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling barking turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, bag, ban, bar, big, bra, and ink. For points, the strongest play is kab — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in barking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in barking plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in barking and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
barking is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
barking is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing barking unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are barking and braking, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from barking earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in barking produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.