retaken needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 103 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retaken is the highest-scoring word from retaken, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 103 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in retaken — and it is retaken itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retaken. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten, enter, and taken. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including taken, akene and kente.
Rearranging the letters in retaken produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, knee and near. For points, 19 words tie at 8 points, including knee, take and tank.
Unscrambling retaken turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are and art. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including ark, eek and eke.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retaken. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and at. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in retaken plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retaken 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.
retaken 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.
retaken is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retaken unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is retaken, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from retaken 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 retaken produce 103 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.