redactor needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 215 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
redactor is the highest-scoring word from redactor, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 215 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in redactor — and it is redactor itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in redactor produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with creator. For points, the strongest plays are cordate, corrade, and redcoat — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling redactor turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carrot, record, and retard. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including record, carder and carted.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redactor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, actor and adore. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including acted, cared and raced.
Rearranging the letters in redactor produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with card, care and cart. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including card, code and cord.
Unscrambling redactor turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are and art. For points, the strongest plays are cad, cod, and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redactor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at and do. For points, 6 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and da.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in redactor plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in redactor 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.
redactor 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 one sense for redactor. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
redactor is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing redactor unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is redactor, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from redactor 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 redactor produce 215 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.