Hidden inside retallies sit laetriles and retallies, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 461 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
laetriles and retallies tie for the highest Scrabble score from retallies at 9 points. The top 10 of 461 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in retallies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and retallies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are laetriles and retallies, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retallies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earliest. For points, the strongest plays are ateliers, earliest, laetrile, lealties, leariest, literals, realties, and talliers — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retallies produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rallies, relates, and saltier. For points, the strongest plays are aeriest, atelier, elaters, leister, literal, rallies, realest, realise, realist, relates, reslate, retails, retells, retiles, rillets, sallier, saltier, saltire, seriate, slatier, stealer, stellar, sterile, stiller, tailers, tailles, tallier, tallies, tellers, tellies, tillers, and trellis — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retallies turns up 80 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, easier, easter, relate, relies, and serial. For points, the strongest plays are aeries, airest, alerts, allees, allies, alters, aretes, ariels, artels, artsie, easier, easter, eaters, elater, elates, elites, estral, illest, larees, laster, leaser, listee, listel, lister, liters, litres, ratels, reales, relate, relets, relies, relist, resail, resale, reseal, reseat, resell, resile, resite, retail, retell, retial, reties, retile, rilles, rillet, sailer, sallet, salter, saltie, satire, sealer, seater, seller, serail, serial, siller, slater, staler, stelae, stelai, stelar, stella, streel, striae, tailer, taille, talers, taller, tallis, teasel, teaser, telial, teller, terais, tilers, tiller, trails, trials, and trills — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 125 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retallies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert, alter, erase, laser, later, and lease. For points, the strongest plays are aerie, airts, aisle, alert, alist, allee, alter, arete, ariel, arils, arise, arles, artel, aster, astir, earls, easel, easer, eater, elate, elite, erase, ester, ileal, iller, irate, islet, istle, lairs, laree, lares, laris, laser, later, lears, lease, least, leers, leets, liars, liers, lilts, liras, lisle, litas, liter, lites, litre, rails, raise, rales, ratel, rates, reais, reals, reels, reest, relet, relit, resat, reset, resit, retia, retie, rials, riels, riles, rille, rills, rites, saree, selle, serai, seral, setae, setal, siree, sitar, slate, sleet, slier, stair, stale, stall, stare, steal, steel, steer, stela, stele, stere, stile, still, stria, taels, tails, taler, tales, talls, tares, tarsi, taser, teals, tears, tease, teels, telae, teles, telia, tells, terai, teres, terse, tesla, tiers, tiler, tiles, tills, tires, tirls, trail, trees, trial, tries, and trill — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retallies produces 129 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, last, late, lets, liar, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are ails, airs, airt, aits, alee, ales, alit, alls, alts, ares, arie, aril, arse, arts, ates, lair, lari, lars, lase, last, late, lati, lats, leal, lear, leas, leer, lees, leet, leis, lest, lets, liar, lias, lier, lies, lilt, lira, lire, list, lite, lits, rail, rais, rale, rase, rate, rats, real, reel, rees, reis, rest, rete, rets, rial, rias, riel, rile, rill, rise, rite, sail, sale, sall, salt, sari, sate, sati, seal, sear, seat, seel, seer, sell, sera, sere, seta, sial, sill, silt, sire, site, slat, slit, star, stir, earl, ears, ease, east, eats, eels, ells, else, eras, erst, etas, ilea, ills, ires, isle, tael, tail, tale, tali, tall, tare, tars, tase, teal, tear, teas, teel, tees, tela, tele, tell, tels, tier, ties, tile, till, tils, tire, tirl, tree, tres, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retallies turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, all, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ail, air, ais, ait, ale, all, als, alt, are, ars, art, ate, ats, ear, eat, eel, ell, els, era, ere, ers, est, eta, ill, ire, its, lar, las, lat, lea, lee, lei, let, lie, lis, lit, rai, ras, rat, ree, rei, res, ret, ria, sae, sal, sat, sea, see, sei, sel, ser, set, sir, sit, sri, tae, tar, tas, tea, tee, tel, tes, tie, til, and tis — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retallies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, ar, as, at, el, er, es, et, is, it, la, li, re, si, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in retallies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retallies and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
retallies is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
retallies is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retallies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are laetriles and retallies, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retallies 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 retallies produce 461 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 80 six-letter words, 125 five-letter words, 129 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.