retold needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 7 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retold is the highest-scoring word from retold, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in retold — and it is retold itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retold. If a familiar word is all you need, start with older. For points, the strongest plays are doter, older, toled, and trode — 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 retold produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lord, rode, role, told, and tore. For points, the strongest plays are delt, doer, dole, dolt, dore, dote, lode, lord, olde, redo, rode, toed, told, and trod — 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 retold turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, led, let, lot, old, red, and rod. For points, the strongest plays are del, doe, dol, dor, dot, eld, led, ode, old, red, rod, ted, and tod — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retold. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — 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 retold 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.
retold 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.
retold is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retold unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is retold, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from retold 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 retold produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.