Hidden inside retailk sit ratlike and talkier, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 155 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
RETAILK isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to RATLIKE and TALKIER.
ratlike and talkier tie for the highest Scrabble score from retailk at 11 points. The top 10 of 155 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in retailk produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ratlike and talkier, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retailk turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are kilter, kirtle, lakier and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retailk. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alike and alter. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including alike, alkie and kiter.
Rearranging the letters in retailk produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kite, lake and late. For points, 23 words tie at 8 points, including kite, lake and leak.
Unscrambling retailk turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including kit, ark and elk.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retailk. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and it. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in retailk plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retailk 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ratlike and talkier, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retailk 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 retailk produce 155 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.