Hidden inside retau is one standout: urate, a five-letter play worth 5 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 33 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
RETAU isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to URATE (noun), a chemical salt, worth 5 points in Scrabble.
urate is the highest-scoring word from retau, worth 5 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 33 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling retau produces exactly one five-letter word: urate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 5 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retau turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 18 words tie at 3 points, including are, art and ate.
Swap a single tile in retau and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is urate, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and no other word from retau 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 retau produce 33 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 5 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.