Hidden inside darden sit dander and darned, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DARDEN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DANDER and DARNED.
dander and darned tie for the highest Scrabble score from darden at 8 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling darden 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 dander and darned, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darden. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dared. For points, the strongest plays are adder, dared, dread, and readd — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in darden produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dead and dear. For points, the strongest plays are dead and redd — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling darden turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, and and are. For points, the strongest plays are add and dad — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darden. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and an. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in darden 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 dander and darned, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from darden 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 darden produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.