Hidden inside redtail sit dilater, redtail, trailed and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 205 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dilater, redtail, trailed and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from redtail at 8 points. The top 10 of 205 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in redtail: three come from rearranging its letters, and redtail 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 dilater, redtail, trailed, and trialed, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling redtail turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with detail. For points, the strongest plays are airted, ariled, dartle, derail, detail, dialer, dilate, laired, railed, redial, relaid, tailed, tirade, and tirled — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redtail. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, alert, alter, dealt, ideal, later, and tired. For points, the strongest plays are aider, ailed, aired, alder, dater, deair, dealt, delta, derat, drail, ideal, idler, irade, lader, laird, lated, liard, lidar, rated, redia, riled, tared, tidal, tilde, tiled, tired, trade, tread, triad, and tried — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in redtail produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date, deal, dear, deli, dial, and diet. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, arid, dale, dare, dart, date, deal, dear, deil, deli, delt, dial, diel, diet, dire, dirl, dirt, dita, dite, drat, edit, idea, idle, ired, lade, laid, lard, lead, lied, raid, read, ride, tide, tied, and trad — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling redtail turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, are, art, ate, die, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are aid, dal, del, die, dit, eld, lad, led, lid, rad, red, rid, tad, and ted — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redtail. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, id, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, 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 redtail 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.
redtail 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 two senses for redtail. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
redtail is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing redtail unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dilater, redtail, trailed, and trialed, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from redtail 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 redtail produce 205 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.