Hidden inside darter sit darter, retard, tarred and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 57 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
darter, retard, tarred and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from darter at 7 points. The top 10 of 57 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in darter: three come from rearranging its letters, and darter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with retard. For points, the strongest plays are darter, retard, tarred, and trader — 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trade. For points, the strongest plays are darer, dater, derat, drear, rared, rated, tared, trade, and tread — 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 darter produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date, dear, rare, rate, read, and tear. For points, the strongest plays are dare, dart, date, dear, drat, read, 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 darter turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are rad, red, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad 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 darter and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
darter 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in darter carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for darter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
darter is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing darter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are darter, retard, tarred, and trader, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from darter 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 darter produce 57 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.