retardants needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 374 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retardants is the highest-scoring word from retardants, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 374 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in retardants — and it is retardants itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retardants 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 retardant, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retardants. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are narrated, redstart, and strander, 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 retardants produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attends, errands, retards, starred, started, and starter. For points, the strongest plays are ansated, arrased, attends, darners, darnest, darters, errands, retards, stander, starred, started, tetrads, and traders — 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 retardants turns up 67 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, attend, errand, rarest, retard, stared, and tasted. For points, the strongest plays are adnate, ardent, attend, darers, darner, darter, daters, denars, derats, drears, errand, radars, ranted, ratted, redans, retard, sander, sardar, snared, staned, stared, stated, strand, tarred, tarted, tasted, tetrad, trader, trades, treads, and trends — 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 100 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retardants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, dares, dates, dears, earns, nerds, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are anted, atted, darer, dares, darns, darts, dater, dates, deans, dears, denar, dents, derat, drats, drear, drest, nadas, nards, nerds, radar, rands, rared, rased, rated, reads, redan, rends, saned, sated, sedan, stade, stand, stead, tared, tased, tends, trade, trads, tread, trend, and tsade — 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 retardants produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, area, arts, dare, data, date, and dear. For points, the strongest plays are ands, dans, dare, darn, dart, data, date, dean, dear, dens, dent, drat, ends, nada, nard, nerd, rads, rand, read, reds, rend, sade, sand, sard, send, sned, tads, teds, 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 retardants turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, ant, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are ads, and, dan, das, den, eds, end, rad, red, sad, 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retardants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, 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.
retardants 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 retardants. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
retardants is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retardants unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is retardants, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from retardants 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 retardants produce 374 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 67 six-letter words, 100 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.