Hidden inside retems sit merest, meters, metres and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
merest, meters, metres and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from retems at 8 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in retems: three come from rearranging its letters, and retems itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meters. For points, the strongest plays are merest, meters, metres, and retems — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retems. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meets, meter, steer, terms, and trees. For points, the strongest plays are meets, meres, meter, metes, metre, remet, retem, teems, terms, and trems — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retems produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, rest, seem, stem, term, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are emes, meet, mere, mete, rems, seem, seme, stem, teem, term, and trem — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retems turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are eme, ems, mes, met, and rem — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retems. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me. For points, the strongest plays are em and me — each worth 4 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 retems and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
retems 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for retems. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
retems is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retems unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are merest, meters, metres, and retems, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retems 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 retems produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.