Hidden inside retint sit retint and tinter, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retint and tinter tie for the highest Scrabble score from retint at 6 points. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in retint: one comes from rearranging its letters, and retint 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 retint and tinter, 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retint. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are inert, inter, niter, nitre, tetri, titer, titre, trine, and trite, 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 retint produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rent, tent, and tire. For points, the strongest plays are nett, nite, rein, rent, rite, tein, tent, tern, tier, tine, tint, tire, and tret — 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 retint turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, ten, tie, tin, and tit. For points, the strongest plays are ern, ire, net, nit, rei, ret, rin, ten, tet, tie, tin, and tit — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retint. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and it. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, et, in, it, ne, 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 retint 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.
retint 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.
retint is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retint unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retint and tinter, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retint 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 retint produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.