Hidden inside retested sit detester, retested, and streeted, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 93 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detester, retested, and streeted tie for the highest Scrabble score from retested at 9 points. The top 10 of 93 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in retested: two come from rearranging its letters, and retested 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 detester, retested, and streeted, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retested produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steered. For points, the strongest plays are reested and steered — 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 retested turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, rested, street, and tested. For points, the strongest plays are desert, deters, detest, reseed, rested, retted, seeder, and tested — 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retested. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, steer, and trees. For points, the strongest plays are deers, deets, deter, drees, drest, redes, reeds, seder, sered, steed, and treed — 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 retested produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, rest, seed, test, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are deer, dees, deet, dere, dree, rede, reds, reed, seed, teds, and teed — 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 retested turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with red, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are dee, eds, red, 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retested. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, 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 retested 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.
retested 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 retested carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
retested is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retested unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are detester, retested, and streeted, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retested 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 retested produce 93 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.