Hidden inside daling sit lading and ligand, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 59 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DALING isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to LADING and LIGAND.
lading and ligand tie for the highest Scrabble score from daling at 8 points. The top 10 of 59 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling daling turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lading and ligand, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in daling. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are algid and gland, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in daling produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dial, gain, glad, laid, land, and nail. For points, the strongest plays are dang, ding, gadi, gild, and glad — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling daling turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, and, dig, gal, lad, lid, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, gad, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in daling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, gi, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in daling and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lading and ligand, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from daling 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 daling produce 59 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.