retarded needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 112 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retarded is the highest-scoring word from retarded, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 112 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in retarded — and it is retarded itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in retarded produces 6 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 derated, dreader, redated, and treaded, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retarded turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearer, redder, retard, and traded. For points, the strongest plays are darted, deader, radder, redder, tedder, and traded — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retarded. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dared, dated, and trade. For points, the strongest plays are adder, dared, dated, dread, dreed, readd, and reded — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retarded produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date, dead, dear, deed, deer, and rare. For points, the strongest plays are dead, deed, and redd — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retarded turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, are, art, ate, dad, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are add and dad — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retarded. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in retarded and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
retarded 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 retarded carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for retarded. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
retarded is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retarded unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is retarded, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from retarded 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 retarded produce 112 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.