retailers needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 471 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retailers is the highest-scoring word from retailers, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 471 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in retailers — and it is retailers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retailers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earliest and trailers. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including earliest, trailers and alterers.
Rearranging the letters in retailers produces 40 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earlier, relates and retires. For points, 40 words tie at 7 points, including earlier, relates and retires.
Unscrambling retailers turns up 92 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters and arrest. For points, 92 words tie at 6 points, including alerts, alters and arrest.
There are 123 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retailers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert and alter. For points, 123 words tie at 5 points, including aisle, alert and alter.
Rearranging the letters in retailers produces 120 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts and last. For points, 120 words tie at 4 points, including airs, arts and last.
Unscrambling retailers turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, 64 words tie at 3 points, including air, are and art.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retailers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, 19 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and is.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in retailers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retailers and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
retailers 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 retailers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
retailers is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retailers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is retailers, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from retailers 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 retailers produce 471 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 12 eight-letter words, 40 seven-letter words, 92 six-letter words, 123 five-letter words, 120 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.