Hidden inside darling sit darling and larding, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
darling and larding tie for the highest Scrabble score from darling at 9 points. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in darling: one comes from rearranging its letters, and darling itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with darling. For points, the strongest plays are darling and larding — 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 darling turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with daring. For points, the strongest plays are daring, gradin, lading, and ligand — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drain, grand, and grind. For points, the strongest plays are algid, gland, grand, and grind — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in darling produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dial, drag, gain, girl, glad, laid, and land. For points, the strongest plays are dang, ding, drag, gadi, gild, gird, glad, grad, and grid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling darling turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, and, dig, gal, lad, and lid. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, gad, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in darling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, gi, and id — each worth 3 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 darling and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
darling 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 3-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 darling. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
darling is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing darling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are darling and larding, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from darling 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 darling produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.