Hidden inside retaste sit estreat, restate, and retaste, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
estreat, restate, and retaste tie for the highest Scrabble score from retaste at 7 points. The top 10 of 140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in retaste: two come from rearranging its letters, and retaste itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are estreat, restate, and retaste, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retaste turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter, estate, street, and treats. For points, the strongest plays are aretes, easter, eaters, estate, reseat, retest, seater, setter, stater, street, taster, taters, teaser, testae, tester, tetras, and treats — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retaste. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, rates, stare, start, state, steer, and taste. For points, the strongest plays are arete, aster, easer, eater, erase, ester, rates, reest, resat, reset, saree, setae, stare, start, state, steer, stere, tares, tarts, taser, taste, tater, tates, tears, tease, teats, teres, terse, testa, tetra, treat, trees, and trets — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retaste produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, and rate. For points, the strongest plays are ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, rase, rate, rats, rees, rest, rete, rets, sate, sear, seat, seer, sera, sere, seta, sett, star, stat, stet, tare, tars, tart, tase, tate, tats, tear, teas, teat, tees, test, tets, tree, tres, tret, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retaste turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are are, ars, art, ate, ats, att, ear, eat, era, ere, ers, est, eta, ras, rat, ree, res, ret, sae, sat, sea, see, ser, set, tae, tar, tas, tat, tea, tee, tes, and tet — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retaste. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, at, er, es, et, re, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
26 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in retaste plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retaste and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
retaste 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 retaste carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
retaste is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retaste unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are estreat, restate, and retaste, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retaste 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 retaste produce 140 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.