darning needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
darning is the highest-scoring word from darning, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in darning — and it is darning itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling darning turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with daring. For points, the strongest plays are daring and gradin — 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 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darning. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drain, grand, and grind. For points, the strongest plays are grand 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 darning produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drag, gain, rain, rang, and ring. For points, the strongest plays are dang, ding, drag, gadi, gird, 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 darning turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, and, dig, nag, rag, and ran. 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darning. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, id, and in. 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 darning 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.
darning 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 one sense for darning. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
darning is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing darning unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is darning, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from darning 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 darning produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.