drink needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 18 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drink is the highest-scoring word from drink, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 18 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in drink — and it is drink itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in drink produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kind. For points, the strongest plays are dink, dirk, and kind — 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 drink turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, kid, and rid. 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 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drink. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and in. 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 drink and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
drink 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 ten senses for drink. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
drink is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drink unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is drink, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from drink 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 drink produce 18 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 6 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.