Hidden inside retant sit natter and ratten, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
RETANT isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to NATTER and RATTEN.
natter and ratten tie for the highest Scrabble score from retant at 6 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling retant turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are natter and ratten, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with treat. For points, the strongest plays are antre, tater, tetra, and treat — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in retant produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, near and neat. For points, 19 words tie at 4 points, including earn, near and neat.
Unscrambling retant turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are and art. For points, 23 words tie at 3 points, including ant, are and art.
Swap a single tile in retant and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are natter and ratten, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retant 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 retant produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.