darlings needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 278 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
darlings is the highest-scoring word from darlings, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 278 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in darlings — and it is darlings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in darlings produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with darling. For points, the strongest plays are darings, darling, gradins, ladings, larding, and ligands — 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 darlings turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with daring, drains, grands, grinds, island, and signal. For points, the strongest plays are daring, glands, gradin, grands, grinds, lading, and ligand — 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 76 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darlings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dials, drags, drain, gains, girls, grand, and grind. For points, the strongest plays are algid, dangs, dings, drags, gadis, gilds, girds, glads, gland, grads, grand, grids, and grind — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in darlings produces 94 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, dial, digs, drag, gain, and gals. For points, the strongest plays are dags, dang, digs, ding, drag, gadi, gads, gids, gild, gird, glad, grad, and grid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling darlings turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, and, dig, gal, and gas. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, gad, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darlings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, gi, and id — each worth 3 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 darlings 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.
darlings 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 three senses for darlings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
darlings is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing darlings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is darlings, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from darlings 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 darlings produce 278 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 76 five-letter words, 94 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.