Hidden inside dinkeys sit dinkeys and kidneys, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dinkeys and kidneys tie for the highest Scrabble score from dinkeys at 15 points. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in dinkeys: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dinkeys itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kidneys. For points, the strongest plays are dinkeys and kidneys — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dinkeys turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kidney. For points, the strongest plays are dinkey and kidney — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dinkeys. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dines, kinds, skied, and yikes. For points, the strongest plays are dinky, dykes, and skyed — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dinkeys produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deny, desk, dies, dine, dyes, ends, and inks. For points, the strongest play is dyke — 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 dinkeys turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dye, end, ids, ink, key, and kid. For points, the strongest plays are key, kye, and sky — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dinkeys. 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.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in dinkeys plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dinkeys 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.
dinkeys 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 dinkeys carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for dinkeys. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
dinkeys is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dinkeys unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dinkeys and kidneys, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dinkeys 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 dinkeys produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.