darklings needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 382 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
darklings is the highest-scoring word from darklings, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 382 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in darklings — and it is darklings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darklings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with darlings. For points, the strongest play is darkling — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in darklings produces 11 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 darklings turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asking, daring, drains, drinks, grands, grinds, and island. For points, the strongest plays are asking, drinks, gaskin, kiangs, 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 107 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darklings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dials, drags, drain, drank, drink, gains, and girls. For points, the strongest plays are darks, dinks, dirks, drank, drink, ganks, ginks, kadis, kiang, kinda, kinds, kings, and skald — 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 darklings produces 140 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, lads, laid, land, liar, and lids. For points, the strongest plays are skag, skid, daks, dank, dark, dink, dirk, disk, gank, gink, kadi, kids, 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 darklings turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, and, ask, dig, and gal. 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darklings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, id, in, and is. 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.
Swap a single tile in darklings and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
darklings is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record two senses for darklings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
darklings is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing darklings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is darklings, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from darklings 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 darklings produce 382 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 107 five-letter words, 140 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.