Hidden inside retuning sit retuning and tenuring, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retuning and tenuring tie for the highest Scrabble score from retuning at 9 points. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in retuning: one comes from rearranging its letters, and retuning itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are retuning and tenuring, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in retuning produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with renting and turning. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including renting, turning and enuring.
Unscrambling retuning turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intern, tuning, and urgent. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including tuning, urgent and engirt.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retuning. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inner, tiger, urine, and uteri. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including tiger, grunt and reign.
Rearranging the letters in retuning produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nine, rent and ring. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including ring, rung and urge.
Unscrambling retuning turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, gun and gut. For points, 17 words tie at 4 points, including get, gun and gut.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retuning. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in retuning plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retuning and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
retuning 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
retuning is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retuning unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retuning and tenuring, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retuning 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 retuning produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.