Hidden inside retines sit entires, entries, retines and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 163 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
entires, entries, retines and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from retines at 7 points. The top 10 of 163 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in retines: three come from rearranging its letters, and retines itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries. For points, the strongest plays are entires, entries, retines, and trienes — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retines turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire, resent, and tenser. For points, 28 words tie at 6 points, including enters, entire and resent.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, rents and risen. For points, 47 words tie at 5 points, including enter, rents and risen.
Rearranging the letters in retines produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets and rent. For points, 41 words tie at 4 points, including nest, nets and rent.
Unscrambling retines turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, net and see. For points, 31 words tie at 3 points, including its, net and see.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, 12 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and it.
51 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in retines plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retines and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
retines 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.
retines is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retines unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are entires, entries, retines, and trienes, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retines 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 retines produce 163 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.