dark needs no unscrambling at all — the four-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 8 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dark is the highest-scoring word from dark, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 8 of 8 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one four-letter word uses the letters in dark — and it is dark itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dark turns up 3 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is dak, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dark. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in dark and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
dark 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in dark carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record fifteen senses for dark. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
dark is the only four-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dark unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dark, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dark 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 dark produce 8 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 four-letter word, 3 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.