Unscramble DUKELING and you have 198 words, DUKELING itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. 7 shorter words score 12, among them KLUDGE, DEKING and DUKING. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from DUKELING split into 1 with 8 letters, 4 with 7, 24 with 6, 35 with 5, 60 with 4, 59 with 3 and 15 with 2.
KIDGE tops the 5-letter words from DUKELING at 11 points; next come EKING and GLIKE on 10. GUIDE, LIKED and GUILD will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble DUKELING, 9 score 9 points, the group's best. LIKE, LINK and KING are the ones most people know.
The 3-letter words you get when you unscramble DUKELING are led by KED, KEG and KID, 8 points each. END, DUE and LED are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of DUKELING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with DU · ending in NG · all 8-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by DEKING, DUKING, GUNKED, KINGED, KLUDGE, KLUGED and UNLIKED (12 points each).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts DUKELING, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUKELING itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 198) | 151 | 197 | 137 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 46 of them: DUKELING, EUKING, INKLED, KIDGE, KINGLE, GLIKE, KIDEL, UNKED, UNKID, KILD, ELDING, GILDEN and 34 more. Words With Friends* skips 14 of them: GUNKED, KLUGED, UNLIKED, DELINK, KLIEG, KUNE, KI, DENI, LUD, NEG, NUG, GI and 2 more. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: UGLI.
These 2 words take every letter of DUKELING plus a single extra one.