retarders 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, 257 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retarders is the highest-scoring word from retarders, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 257 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in retarders — and it is retarders itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retarders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrested. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including arrested, drearest and retarder.
Rearranging the letters in retarders produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest, retards, and starred. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including dearest, retards and starred.
Unscrambling retarders turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, dearer and desert. For points, 28 words tie at 7 points, including dearer, desert and erased.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retarders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dates and dears. For points, 37 words tie at 6 points, including dares, dates and dears.
Rearranging the letters in retarders produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, dare and date. For points, 22 words tie at 5 points, including dare, date and dear.
Unscrambling retarders turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are and art. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including ads, red and sad.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retarders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in retarders plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retarders 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.
retarders 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 retarders carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
retarders is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retarders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is retarders, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from retarders 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 retarders produce 257 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.