Hidden inside kinds sit dinks and kinds, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dinks and kinds tie for the highest Scrabble score from kinds at 10 points. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in kinds: one comes from rearranging its letters, and kinds itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kinds. For points, the strongest plays are dinks and kinds — 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 kinds produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inks, kids, kind, sink, and skin. For points, the strongest plays are dink, disk, kids, kind, and skid — 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 kinds turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ids, ink, kid, sin, and ski. 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kinds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and is. 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 six-letter word can be made using all the letters in kinds plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in kinds and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
kinds 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 four senses for kinds. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
kinds is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing kinds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dinks and kinds, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from kinds 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 kinds produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.