Hidden inside retired sit retired, retried, and tireder, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retired, retried, and tireder tie for the highest Scrabble score from retired at 8 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in retired: two come from rearranging its letters, and retired itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with retired. For points, the strongest plays are retired, retried, and tireder — 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 retired turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with retire. For points, the strongest plays are dieter, reedit, retied, and tiered — 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retired. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drier, tired, and tried. For points, the strongest plays are deter, direr, drier, eider, erred, rider, tired, treed, and tried — 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 retired produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, diet, dirt, edit, ride, tied, and tire. For points, the strongest plays are deer, deet, dere, diet, dire, dirt, dite, dree, edit, eide, ired, rede, reed, ride, teed, tide, and tied — 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 retired turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, red, rid, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are dee, die, dit, red, rid, and ted — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retired. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each 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 retired 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.
retired 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 retired carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for retired. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
retired is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retired unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retired, retried, and tireder, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retired 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 retired produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.