retaining needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 245 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retaining is the highest-scoring word from retaining, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 245 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in retaining — and it is retaining itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retaining. If a familiar word is all you need, start with training. For points, the strongest plays are arginine, integrin, and training — 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 retaining produces 29 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earning, raining, renting, and tearing. For points, the strongest plays are aginner, airting, anteing, antigen, earning, engrain, gentian, ginnier, granite, grannie, gratine, igniter, ingrain, ingrate, nearing, raining, ranting, regnant, reining, renting, ringent, tangier, tearing, tiering, and trining — 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 retaining turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airing, eating, intern, rating, and tinier. For points, the strongest plays are aigret, airing, anting, argent, artigi, earing, eating, engirt, gainer, gaiter, gannet, garnet, ginner, gratin, ignite, ingate, innage, rating, reagin, regain, regina, tagine, taring, tieing, tining, tiring, and triage — 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 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retaining. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, genii, giant, grant, great, and inner. For points, the strongest plays are agent, anger, atigi, garni, gater, genii, giant, grain, grant, grate, great, iring, range, regna, reign, renig, retag, targe, terga, tiger, tinge, and tragi — 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 retaining produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gain, gate, near, neat, nine, and rage. For points, the strongest plays are ager, agin, areg, gaen, gain, gait, gane, gate, gean, gear, gent, geta, gien, girn, girt, gite, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, grin, grit, rage, ragi, rang, ring, tang, ting, and trig — 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 retaining turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are age, eng, erg, gae, gan, gar, gat, gen, get, gie, gin, git, nag, neg, rag, reg, rig, tag, and teg — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retaining. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
11 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in retaining plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retaining 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.
retaining 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
retaining is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retaining unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is retaining, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from retaining 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 retaining produce 245 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.