Hidden inside retakers sit retakers and streaker, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 200 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retakers and streaker tie for the highest Scrabble score from retakers at 12 points. The top 10 of 200 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in retakers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and retakers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are retakers and streaker, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retakers produces 7 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 kraters, retaker, retakes, and starker, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retakers turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, easter, and rarest. For points, the strongest plays are krater, rakees, rakers, retake, skater, staker, strake, streak, streek, and takers — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retakers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, rates, skate, stare, steak, steer, and takes. For points, the strongest plays are akees, asker, eskar, esker, karst, karts, keets, ketas, rakee, raker, rakes, reeks, saker, skate, skeet, stake, stark, steak, steek, taker, takes, teaks, and treks — 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 retakers produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, and rare. For points, the strongest plays are akee, arks, ekes, kaes, kart, kats, keas, keet, keta, rake, reek, sake, sark, seek, skat, skee, take, task, teak, and trek — 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 retakers turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ask, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ark, ask, eek, eke, kae, kas, kat, kea, ska, and tsk — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retakers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 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 retakers 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.
retakers 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in retakers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
retakers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retakers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retakers and streaker, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retakers 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 retakers produce 200 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.