retellings needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 546 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retellings is the highest-scoring word from retellings, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 546 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in retellings — and it is retellings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retellings turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are reselling, retelling, and streeling, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retellings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with silenter and steering. For points, the strongest plays are gentiles, gentries, gillnets, greenlit, integers, reelings, reesting, ringlets, sleeting, steeling, steering, sterling, and tinglers — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retellings produces 60 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries, gentler, resting, selling, and telling. For points, the strongest plays are eelings, elegist, elegits, gellies, gentile, gentler, gentles, gerents, gillers, gillnet, glisten, glister, greisen, grilles, gristle, integer, leering, lingers, reeling, regents, reglets, resting, ringlet, seeling, selling, singlet, slinger, sniglet, stinger, telling, tingler, tingles, and treeing — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retellings turns up 118 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire, gentle, greets, grills, listen, and relies. For points, the strongest plays are eeling, egrets, elegit, engirt, genets, genies, genres, gentes, gentil, gentle, gerent, giller, gleets, glints, greens, greets, grille, grills, grilse, ingest, ingles, legers, legist, legits, lieges, ligers, linger, regent, regies, regilt, reglet, reigns, renigs, resign, seeing, sering, signee, signer, signet, singer, single, stinge, string, teeing, tenges, tigers, tinges, and tingle — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 145 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retellings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, genes, girls, green, greet, grill, and lines. For points, the strongest plays are egers, egest, egret, geest, gelts, genes, genet, genie, genre, gents, geste, gills, gilts, girls, girns, girts, gites, glees, gleet, glens, glint, green, grees, greet, grill, grins, grist, grits, ingle, leger, leges, legit, liege, liger, lings, reges, regie, reign, renig, rings, segni, sengi, serge, siege, singe, sling, sting, tenge, tiger, tinge, tings, and trigs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retellings produces 123 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, gene, gets, girl, legs, lent, and lets. For points, the strongest plays are eger, egis, engs, ergs, gees, gels, gelt, gene, gens, gent, gest, gets, gien, gies, gill, gilt, gins, girl, girn, girt, gist, gite, gits, glee, glen, gree, grin, grit, legs, ling, negs, regs, rigs, ring, sign, sing, tegs, ting, and trig — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retellings turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get, ill, its, leg, let, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are eng, erg, gee, gel, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, leg, neg, reg, rig, seg, sig, and teg — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retellings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in retellings plus one additional letter.
retellings 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.
The 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
retellings is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retellings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is retellings, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from retellings 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 retellings produce 546 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 18 eight-letter words, 60 seven-letter words, 118 six-letter words, 145 five-letter words, 123 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.