retardate 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, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retardate is the highest-scoring word from retardate, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in retardate — and it is retardate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in retardate produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with treated. For points, the strongest plays are aerated, retread, treader, and treated — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retardate turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearer and retard. For points, 17 words tie at 7 points, including dearer, retard and darter.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retardate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trade and treat. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including trade, atted and darer.
Rearranging the letters in retardate produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, dare and data. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including dare, data and date.
Unscrambling retardate turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including red, tad and dee.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retardate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in retardate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retardate 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.
retardate 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in retardate carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
retardate is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retardate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is retardate, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from retardate 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 retardate produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.