Hidden inside debark sit barked, braked, and debark, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
barked, braked, and debark tie for the highest Scrabble score from debark at 13 points. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in debark: two come from rearranging its letters, and debark itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barked. For points, the strongest plays are barked, braked, and debark — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in debark. If a familiar word is all you need, start with baked, beard, bread, and break. For points, the strongest play is baked — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in debark produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bade, bake, bare, bark, bear, bred, and dare. For points, the strongest plays are bake, bark, beak, berk, kbar, and kerb — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling debark turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, bad, bar, bed, bra, ear, and era. For points, the strongest play is kab — worth 9 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 debark. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and be. For points, the strongest play is ka — 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 debark 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.
debark 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 1-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 debark. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
debark is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing debark unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are barked, braked, and debark, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from debark 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 debark produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.