Hidden inside retesting sit resetting, retesting, and ringettes, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 346 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
resetting, retesting, and ringettes tie for the highest Scrabble score from retesting at 10 points. The top 10 of 346 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in retesting: two come from rearranging its letters, and retesting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are resetting, retesting, and ringettes, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retesting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with interest and steering. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including steering, gentries and gitterns.
Rearranging the letters in retesting produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries, resting, setting, and testing. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including resting, setting and testing.
Unscrambling retesting turns up 72 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire and greets. For points, 28 words tie at 7 points, including greets, seeing and singer.
There are 93 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retesting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, genes and green. For points, 35 words tie at 6 points, including genes, green and greet.
Rearranging the letters in retesting produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, gets and nest. For points, 30 words tie at 5 points, including gene, gets and rigs.
Unscrambling retesting turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get and its. For points, 15 words tie at 4 points, including gee, get and rig.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retesting. 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.
12 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in retesting plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retesting and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
retesting 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.
retesting is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retesting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are resetting, retesting, and ringettes, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retesting 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 retesting produce 346 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 72 six-letter words, 93 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.