Hidden inside darkies is one standout: daikers, a seven-letter play worth 12 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 181 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DARKIES isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DAIKERS (verb, form of daiker), to dacker, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
daikers is the highest-scoring word from darkies, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 181 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling darkies produces exactly one seven-letter word: daikers. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling darkies turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raised and risked. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including risked, daiker and dikers.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darkies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aside and asked. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including asked, skied and darks.
Rearranging the letters in darkies produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs and dare. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including dark, desk and kids.
Unscrambling darkies turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, the strongest plays are dak and kid — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darkies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, id, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in darkies 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is daikers, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from darkies 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 darkies produce 181 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 13 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.