Hidden inside retches sit etchers and retches, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
etchers and retches tie for the highest Scrabble score from retches at 12 points. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in retches: one comes from rearranging its letters, and retches 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 etchers and retches, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retches turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheers, secret, and threes. For points, the strongest plays are cheers, cherts, creesh, etcher, and etches — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheer, chest, sheet, steer, there, these, and three. For points, the strongest plays are cheer, chert, chest, eches, retch, and techs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retches produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with here, hers, rest, thee, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are eche, echt, etch, and tech — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retches turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, see, set, she, and the. For points, the strongest plays are eth, her, hes, het, she, and the — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retches. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: eh, he, and sh, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in retches 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.
retches 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 retches carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for retches. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
retches is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are etchers and retches, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retches 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 retches produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.