retentively needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 288 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retentively is the highest-scoring word from retentively, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 288 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in retentively — and it is retentively itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retentively produces exactly one nine-letter word: retentive. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retentively. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entirely and eternity. For points, the strongest plays are entirely, entirety, eternity, eyeliner, lientery, and terylene — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retentively produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entitle, relieve, and teenier. For points, the strongest plays are liveyer and nervily — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retentively turns up 63 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eleven, entire, evener, eviler, and letter. For points, the strongest plays are evenly, levity, livery, livyer, venery, verily, verity, and vinery — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 66 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retentively. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, entry, event, every, liver, nerve, and never. For points, the strongest plays are every, nervy, veery, veiny, and vinyl — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retentively produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with even, ever, evil, lent, line, live, and rely. For points, the strongest plays are envy, levy, tivy, very, and viny — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retentively turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, eye, let, lie, lit, net, and ten. For points, the strongest play is ivy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retentively. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and it. For points, the strongest play is ye — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 twelve-letter word can be made using all the letters in retentively plus one additional letter.
retentively 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 one sense for retentively. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
retentively is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retentively unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is retentively, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from retentively 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 retentively produce 288 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 8 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 63 six-letter words, 66 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.