retarder needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 93 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retarder is the highest-scoring word from retarder, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 93 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in retarder — and it is retarder itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in retarder produces 3 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 drearer, retread, and treader, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retarder turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearer and retard. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including dearer, retard and darter.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retarder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rarer and trade. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including trade, darer and dater.
Rearranging the letters in retarder produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date and dear. For points, 14 words tie at 5 points, including dare, date and dear.
Unscrambling retarder turns up 21 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retarder. 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in retarder plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retarder 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.
retarder 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 retarder carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
retarder is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retarder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is retarder, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from retarder 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 retarder produce 93 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.