retched needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retched is the highest-scoring word from retched, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in retched — and it is retched itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retched turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cheder, etched, and teched, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retched. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheer, there, and three. For points, the strongest play is eched — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in retched produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, here, thee, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are eche, echt, etch, and tech — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retched turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, red, and the. For points, the strongest play is edh — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in retched plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retched 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.
retched 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 retched carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
retched is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retched unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is retched, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from retched 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 retched produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.