Hidden inside linked sit delink, kilned, kindle and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 55 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delink, kilned, kindle and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from linked at 11 points. The top 10 of 55 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in linked: three come from rearranging its letters, and linked itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are delink, kilned, kindle, and linked, 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 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in linked. If a familiar word is all you need, start with liked and lined. For points, the strongest plays are inked and liked — 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 linked produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dine, kind, lend, lied, like, and line. For points, the strongest plays are dike, dink, and kind — 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 linked turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ink, kid, led, lid, and lie. 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in linked. 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 linked 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.
linked 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 linked. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
linked is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing linked unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are delink, kilned, kindle, and linked, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from linked 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 linked produce 55 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.