Hidden inside retainr sit retrain, terrain, and trainer, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 109 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
RETAINR isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to RETRAIN, TERRAIN and TRAINER.
retrain, terrain, and trainer tie for the highest Scrabble score from retainr at 7 points. The top 10 of 109 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in retainr produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trainer. For points, the strongest plays are retrain, terrain, and trainer — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retainr turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are artier, errant, irater and 4 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retainr. If a familiar word is all you need, start with train. For points, 20 words tie at 5 points, including train, airer and antre.
Rearranging the letters in retainr produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, near and neat. For points, 30 words tie at 4 points, including earn, near and neat.
Unscrambling retainr turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and are. For points, 33 words tie at 3 points, including air, ant and are.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retainr. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, 16 words tie at 2 points, including an, at and in.
13 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in retainr plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retainr 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 retrain, terrain, and trainer, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retainr 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 retainr produce 109 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.