darkling needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 168 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
darkling is the highest-scoring word from darkling, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 168 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in darkling — and it is darkling itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in darkling produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with darling. For points, the strongest play is darking — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling darkling turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with daring. For points, the strongest plays are laking and raking — 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 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darkling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drain, drank, drink, grand, and grind. For points, the strongest plays are drank, drink, kiang, and kinda — 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 darkling produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dark, dial, drag, gain, girl, glad, and kind. For points, the strongest plays are dank, dark, dink, dirk, gank, gink, kadi, kind, and king — 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 darkling turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, and, dig, gal, ink, and kid. For points, the strongest plays are dak and kid — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darkling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in darkling plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in darkling and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
darkling 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for darkling. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
darkling is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing darkling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is darkling, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from darkling 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 darkling produce 168 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.