retainer needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 155 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retainer is the highest-scoring word from retainer, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 155 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in retainer — and it is retainer itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in retainer produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trainer. For points, the strongest plays are arenite, reinter, rentier, retinae, retrain, tearier, terrain, terrane, terrine, trainee, and trainer — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retainer turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entire, nearer, neater, and retire. For points, the strongest plays are aerier, artier, earner, entera, entire, errant, etrier, irater, nearer, neater, ranter, ratine, reearn, renter, rerent, retain, retear, retina, retine, retire, tearer, teniae, terrae, and triene — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retainer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten, enter, and train. For points, the strongest plays are aerie, airer, antre, arene, arete, eaten, eater, enate, enter, entia, inert, inter, irate, niter, nitre, ranee, rater, rente, reran, retia, retie, riant, tarre, tenia, terai, terne, terra, tinea, train, treen, trier, and trine — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retainer produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, near, neat, rain, rare, rate, and rent. For points, the strongest plays are airn, airt, ante, anti, arie, earn, erne, etna, nare, near, neat, nite, rain, rani, rant, rare, rate, rear, rein, rent, rete, rite, tain, tare, tarn, tear, teen, tein, tern, tian, tier, tine, tire, and tree — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retainer turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ain, air, ait, ane, ani, ant, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, ere, ern, err, eta, ire, nae, nee, net, nit, rai, ran, rat, ree, rei, ret, ria, rin, tae, tan, tar, tea, tee, ten, tie, and tin — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retainer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, an, ar, at, en, er, et, in, it, na, ne, re, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 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 retainer 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.
retainer 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 three senses for retainer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
retainer is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retainer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is retainer, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from retainer 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 retainer produce 155 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 11 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.