Hidden inside retightens sit retightens and tighteners, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 517 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retightens and tighteners tie for the highest Scrabble score from retightens at 14 points. The top 10 of 517 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in retightens: one comes from rearranging its letters, and retightens itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are retightens and tighteners, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retightens turns up 8 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with thirteens. For points, the strongest plays are retighten, teethings, tethering, and tightener — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retightens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with interest, steering, strength, and thirteen. For points, 10 words tie at 12 points, including strength, greenish and greenths.
Rearranging the letters in retightens produces 46 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries, neither and resting. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including tighter, greenth and hingers.
Unscrambling retightens turns up 108 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with either, enters and entire. For points, 14 words tie at 10 points, including nights, rights and things.
There are 139 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retightens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eight, enter and genes. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including eight, night and right.
Rearranging the letters in retightens produces 113 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, gets and hens. For points, the strongest plays are ghee, ghis, nigh, and sigh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retightens turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get and hen. For points, the strongest play is ghi — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retightens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in retightens plus one additional letter.
retightens 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.
retightens is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retightens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retightens and tighteners, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retightens 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 retightens produce 517 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 8 nine-letter words, 23 eight-letter words, 46 seven-letter words, 108 six-letter words, 139 five-letter words, 113 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.