Hidden inside retallying sit integrally and retallying, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 582 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
integrally and retallying tie for the highest Scrabble score from retallying at 14 points. The top 10 of 582 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in retallying: one comes from rearranging its letters, and retallying itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are integrally and retallying, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retallying turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is genitally, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retallying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altering, relating, and triangle. For points, the strongest plays are genially, layering, legality, rallying, regality, relaying, ringlety, tallying, and yearling — 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 retallying produces 57 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allergy, gallery, reality, relying, tearing, telling, and yelling. For points, the strongest plays are agentry, agilely, allergy, allying, angerly, angrily, gallery, greatly, langley, largely, regally, relying, retying, yealing, and yelling — 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 retallying turns up 101 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, gently, lately, laying, nearly, rating, and really. For points, the strongest plays are anergy, argyle, argyll, gaiety, gainly, galley, gantry, gently, gentry, glairy, glinty, gnarly, grainy, gyrate, laying, raying, tangly, tingly, trigly, trying, and tyring — 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 133 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retallying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, alert, alien, alley, alter, angel, and anger. For points, the strongest plays are agley, angry, eying, gaily, gally, gayer, gelly, gilly, girly, glary, gynie, gyral, lingy, lying, rangy, tangy, tying, and yager — 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 retallying produces 152 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gain, gate, girl, gray, grey, and lane. For points, the strongest plays are agly, gley, gray, grey, gyre, gyri, yage, yagi, and yang — 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 retallying turns up 92 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, all, ant, any, are, and art. For points, the strongest plays are gay, gey, and yag — 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retallying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, ay, in, and it. 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in retallying plus one additional letter.
retallying 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.
retallying is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retallying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are integrally and retallying, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retallying 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 retallying produce 582 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 18 eight-letter words, 57 seven-letter words, 101 six-letter words, 133 five-letter words, 152 four-letter words, 92 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.