darnedest needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 411 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
darnedest is the highest-scoring word from darnedest, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 411 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in darnedest — and it is darnedest itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darnedest. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are darndest, dreadest, and stranded, 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 darnedest produces 29 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest, eastern, nearest, and reddest. For points, the strongest plays are addrest, danders, deadens, deadest, derated, raddest, redated, reddens, reddest, sedated, steaded, tedders, treaded, and trended — 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 darnedest turns up 83 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, earned, easter, enters, erased, neater, and rented. For points, the strongest plays are adders, dander, darned, darted, deaden, deader, deaned, dedans, dented, desand, dreads, readds, redden, rended, sadden, sadder, sanded, sended, tedder, tended, and traded — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 116 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darnedest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dared, dares, dated, dates, dears, deeds, and deers. For points, the strongest plays are adder, dared, dated, deads, deeds, dread, dreed, ended, readd, redds, and reded — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in darnedest produces 105 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adds, ants, arts, dads, dare, date, and dead. For points, the strongest plays are adds, dads, dead, deed, and redd — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling darnedest turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, ads, and, ant, are, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are add and dad — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darnedest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in darnedest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in darnedest and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
darnedest 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.
darnedest is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing darnedest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is darnedest, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from darnedest 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 darnedest produce 411 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 83 six-letter words, 116 five-letter words, 105 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.