Hidden inside kindles sit delinks, kindles, and slinked, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delinks, kindles, and slinked tie for the highest Scrabble score from kindles at 12 points. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in kindles: two come from rearranging its letters, and kindles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are delinks, kindles, and slinked, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling kindles turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are delink, kilned, kindle, linked, and silked, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kindles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dines, kinds, lends, liked, likes, and lined. For points, the strongest plays are dikes, dinks, inked, kinds, liked, and skied — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in kindles produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, desk, dies, dine, ends, inks, and kids. For points, the strongest plays are desk, dike, dink, disk, kids, kind, sked, and skid — 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 kindles turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ids, ink, kid, led, and lid. For points, the strongest play is kid — worth 8 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 kindles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and is. For points, the strongest play is ki — 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 kindles 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.
kindles 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 2-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 kindles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
kindles is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing kindles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are delinks, kindles, and slinked, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from kindles 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 kindles produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.