Hidden inside retied sit dieter, reedit, retied and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dieter, reedit, retied and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from retied at 7 points. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in retied: three come from rearranging its letters, and retied itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dieter, reedit, retied, and tiered, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retied. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tired and tried. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including tired, tried and deter.
Rearranging the letters in retied produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, diet and dirt. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including deer, diet and dirt.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retied. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
19 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in retied plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retied 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.
retied 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in retied carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
retied is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retied unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dieter, reedit, retied, and tiered, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retied 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 retied produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.