Hidden inside darnests sit darnests and standers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 276 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
darnests and standers tie for the highest Scrabble score from darnests at 9 points. The top 10 of 276 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in darnests: one comes from rearranging its letters, and darnests itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are darnests and standers, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in darnests produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are darnest, sanders, stander, and strands, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling darnests turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sanest, stands, stared, stares, and trades. For points, the strongest plays are ardent, daters, denars, derats, ranted, redans, sander, sedans, snared, stades, stands, staned, stared, steads, strand, trades, treads, trends, and tsades — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 85 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darnests. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dates, dears, dress, earns, nerds, and nests. For points, the strongest plays are anted, dares, darns, darts, dater, dates, deans, dears, denar, dents, derat, drats, dress, drest, nards, nerds, rands, rased, rated, reads, redan, rends, sades, sands, saned, sards, sated, sedan, sends, sneds, stade, stand, stead, tared, tased, tends, trade, trads, tread, trend, and tsade — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in darnests produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts, dare, date, dear, earn, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are ands, dans, dare, darn, dart, date, dean, dear, dens, dent, drat, ends, nard, nerd, rads, rand, read, reds, rend, sade, sand, sard, send, sned, tads, teds, tend, and trad — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling darnests turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, ant, are, art, ass, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are ads, and, dan, das, den, eds, end, rad, red, sad, tad, and ted — each worth 4 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 darnests. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — 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 darnests 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.
darnests 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.
darnests is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing darnests unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are darnests and standers, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from darnests 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 darnests produce 276 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 85 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.