Hidden inside retal sit alert, alter, artel and 3 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
RETAL isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ALERT, ALTER, ARTEL, LATER, RATEL and 1 more.
alert, alter, artel and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from retal at 5 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, and later. For points, the strongest plays are alert, alter, artel, later, ratel, and taler — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in retal produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with late, rate, real, tale, and tear. For points, the strongest plays are earl, late, lear, rale, rate, real, tael, tale, tare, teal, tear, and tela — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retal turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and let. For points, the strongest plays are ale, alt, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, eta, lar, lat, lea, let, rat, ret, tae, tar, tea, and tel — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, ar, at, el, er, et, la, re, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
43 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in retal plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retal and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alert, alter, artel, later, ratel, and taler, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retal 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 retal produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.