Hidden inside retiling sit glintier, retiling, and tinglier, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 131 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
glintier, retiling, and tinglier tie for the highest Scrabble score from retiling at 9 points. The top 10 of 131 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in retiling: two come from rearranging its letters, and retiling itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are glintier, retiling, and tinglier, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retiling produces 9 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are igniter, lignite, lingier, ringlet, tiering, tingler, and tirling, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retiling turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tinier. For points, the strongest plays are engirt, gentil, girlie, ignite, linger, regilt, riling, tieing, tiling, tingle, and tiring — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retiling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii and tiger. For points, the strongest plays are genii, glint, ingle, iring, legit, liger, reign, renig, tiger, and tinge — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retiling produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with girl, lent, line, rent, ring, and tire. For points, the strongest plays are gelt, gent, gien, gilt, girl, girn, girt, gite, glen, grin, grit, ling, ring, ting, and trig — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retiling turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, leg, let, lie, lit, net, and rig. For points, the strongest plays are eng, erg, gel, gen, get, gie, gin, git, leg, neg, reg, rig, and teg — each worth 4 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 retiling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 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 retiling and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
retiling 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
retiling is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retiling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are glintier, retiling, and tinglier, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retiling 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 retiling produce 131 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.