Hidden inside darkest sit darkest and straked, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 181 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
darkest and straked tie for the highest Scrabble score from darkest at 12 points. The top 10 of 181 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in darkest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and darkest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with darkest. For points, the strongest plays are darkest and straked — 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 darkest turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with skated, stared, and trades. For points, the strongest plays are drakes, skated, staked, and tasked — 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 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darkest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asked, dares, dates, dears, rates, reads, and skate. For points, the strongest plays are asked, darks, drake, dreks, raked, and tsked — 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 darkest produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, dare, dark, date, dear, desk, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are daks, dark, desk, drek, and sked — 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 darkest turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, art, ask, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest play is dak — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darkest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. 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.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in darkest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in darkest 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.
darkest 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 darkest carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
darkest is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing darkest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are darkest and straked, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from darkest 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 darkest produce 181 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.