Hidden inside darken sit danker, darken, narked and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
danker, darken, narked and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from darken at 11 points. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in darken: three come from rearranging its letters, and darken itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are danker, darken, narked, and ranked, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darken. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drank and naked. For points, the strongest plays are drake, drank, knead, naked, and raked — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in darken produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dark, dear, earn, near, nerd, and read. For points, the strongest plays are dank, dark, and drek — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling darken turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, are, ear, end, era, ran, and red. For points, the strongest play 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darken. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and an. 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 darken 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.
darken 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for darken. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
darken is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing darken unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are danker, darken, narked, and ranked, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from darken 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 darken produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.