Hidden inside kidney sit dinkey and kidney, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dinkey and kidney tie for the highest Scrabble score from kidney at 14 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in kidney: one comes from rearranging its letters, and kidney itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. 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 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kidney. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is dinky, 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 kidney produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deny, dine, and kind. 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 kidney turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dye, end, ink, key, and kid. For points, the strongest plays are key and kye — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kidney. 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 kidney and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
kidney 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 kidney carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for kidney. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
kidney is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing kidney unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dinkey and kidney, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from kidney 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 kidney produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.