Hidden inside retells sit retells and tellers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retells and tellers tie for the highest Scrabble score from retells at 7 points. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in retells: one comes from rearranging its letters, and retells 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 retells and tellers, 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 retells turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are relets, resell, retell, seller, streel, and teller, 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 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retells. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steel, steer, tells, and trees. For points, the strongest plays are ester, leers, leets, reels, reest, relet, reset, selle, sleet, steel, steer, stele, stere, teels, teles, tells, teres, terse, and trees — 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 retells produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, lets, rest, sell, tell, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are eels, ells, else, erst, leer, lees, leet, lest, lets, reel, rees, rest, rete, rets, seel, seer, sell, sere, teel, tees, tele, tell, tels, tree, and tres — 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 retells turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are eel, ell, els, ere, ers, est, lee, let, ree, res, ret, see, sel, ser, set, tee, tel, and tes — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retells. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are el, er, es, et, re, 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.
Swap a single tile in retells 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.
retells 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for retells. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
retells is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retells unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retells and tellers, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retells 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 retells produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.