Hidden inside kindly sit dinkly and kindly, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dinkly and kindly tie for the highest Scrabble score from kindly at 14 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in kindly: one comes from rearranging its letters, and kindly itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kindly. For points, the strongest plays are dinkly and kindly — 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 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kindly. 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 kindly produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kind and link. For points, the strongest play is inky — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling kindly turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, kid, and lid. 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kindly. 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.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in kindly plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in kindly 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.
kindly 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 three senses for kindly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
kindly is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing kindly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dinkly and kindly, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from kindly 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 kindly produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.