Hidden inside retreat sit retreat and treater, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retreat and treater tie for the highest Scrabble score from retreat at 7 points. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in retreat: one comes from rearranging its letters, and retreat itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are retreat and treater, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retreat turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ratter, retear, tarter and 3 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retreat. If a familiar word is all you need, start with treat. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including treat, arete and eater.
Rearranging the letters in retreat produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rare, rate, tear, and tree. For points, 11 words tie at 4 points, including rare, rate and tear.
Unscrambling retreat turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 19 words tie at 3 points, including are, art and ate.
11 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in retreat plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retreat 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.
retreat 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in retreat carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record eleven senses for retreat. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
retreat is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retreat unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retreat and treater, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retreat 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 retreat produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.