retakes 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, 164 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retakes is the highest-scoring word from retakes, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 164 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in retakes — and it is retakes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retakes turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter. For points, the strongest plays are rakees, 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 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retakes. 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, 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 retakes produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, and rate. 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 retakes turns up 39 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 retakes. 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 retakes 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.
retakes 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 retakes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for retakes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
retakes is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retakes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is retakes, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from retakes 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 retakes produce 164 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 14 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.