kilderkin needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. Short on board space? kindlier matches that same 13-point score in Scrabble while spending only eight letters — the efficient pick when the long play won't fit. In all, 118 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
kilderkin and kindlier tie for the highest Scrabble score from kilderkin at 13 points. The top 10 of 118 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in kilderkin — and it is kilderkin itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling kilderkin produces exactly one eight-letter word: kindlier. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in kilderkin produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dinkier and kindler, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling kilderkin turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kinder. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including kinder, delink and kilned.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kilderkin. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, drink, liked, and lined. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including drink, liked and diker.
Rearranging the letters in kilderkin produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dine and kind. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including kind, dike and dink.
Unscrambling kilderkin turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end and ink. For points, the strongest play is kid — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kilderkin. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in kilderkin plus one additional letter.
kilderkin 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for kilderkin. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
kilderkin is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing kilderkin unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are kilderkin and kindlier, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from kilderkin 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 kilderkin produce 118 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.