Hidden inside retire sit etrier and retire, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
etrier and retire tie for the highest Scrabble score from retire at 6 points. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in retire: one comes from rearranging its letters, and retire itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with retire. For points, the strongest plays are etrier and retire — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retire. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are retie and trier, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retire produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tire and tree. For points, the strongest plays are rete, rite, tier, tire, and tree — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retire turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tie. For points, the strongest plays are ere, err, ire, ree, rei, ret, tee, and tie — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retire. If a familiar word is all you need, start with it. For points, the strongest plays are er, et, it, re, te, and ti — each worth 2 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 retire 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.
retire 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 retire carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record eleven senses for retire. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
retire is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retire unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are etrier and retire, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retire 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 retire produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.