Hidden inside retally sit alertly and retally, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 103 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alertly and retally tie for the highest Scrabble score from retally at 10 points. The top 10 of 103 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in retally: one comes from rearranging its letters, and retally itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alertly and retally, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retally turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lately, really, and taller. For points, the strongest plays are elytra, lately, lealty, lyrate, rallye, really, and realty — 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alley, alter, early, later, layer, and rally. For points, the strongest plays are alley, early, layer, leary, lyart, rally, relay, tally, teary, and telly — 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 retally produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with late, rate, real, rely, tale, tall, and tear. For points, the strongest plays are aery, ally, arty, aryl, eyra, lyre, rely, tray, trey, tyer, tyre, yare, year, and yell — 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 retally turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, are, art, ate, aye, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are aye, lay, ley, lye, ray, rya, rye, try, tye, yar, yea, yer, and yet — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 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 retally 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.
retally 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.
retally is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retally unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alertly and retally, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retally 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 retally produce 103 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.