retaking needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 249 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retaking is the highest-scoring word from retaking, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 249 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in retaking — and it is retaking itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in retaking produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tearing. For points, the strongest play is karting — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retaking turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, rating, and taking. For points, the strongest plays are raking and taking — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retaking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger and giant. For points, the strongest plays are eking and kiang — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in retaking produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gain and gate. For points, the strongest plays are gank, gink, and king — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retaking turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and ant. For points, the strongest play is keg — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retaking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in retaking plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retaking 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.
retaking 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 2-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 retaking. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
retaking is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retaking unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is retaking, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from retaking 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 retaking produce 249 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.