retardant needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 150 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retardant is the highest-scoring word from retardant, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 150 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in retardant — and it is retardant itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retardant produces exactly one eight-letter word: narrated. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in retardant produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are narrate and tartare, 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 retardant turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attend, errand, and retard. For points, the strongest plays are adnate, ardent, attend, darner, darter, errand, ranted, ratted, retard, tarred, tarted, tetrad, and trader — 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 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retardant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trade and treat. For points, the strongest plays are anted, atted, darer, dater, denar, derat, drear, radar, rared, rated, redan, tared, trade, tread, and trend — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retardant produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, dare, data, date, dear, earn, and near. For points, the strongest plays are dare, darn, dart, data, date, dean, dear, dent, drat, nada, nard, nerd, rand, read, rend, tend, and trad — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retardant turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are and, dan, den, end, rad, red, tad, and ted — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retardant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in retardant plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retardant 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.
retardant is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for retardant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
retardant is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retardant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is retardant, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from retardant 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 retardant produce 150 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.