Hidden inside retool sit looter, retool, rootle and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
looter, retool, rootle and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from retool at 6 points. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in retool: three come from rearranging its letters, and retool 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 looter, retool, rootle, and tooler, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retool produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with role, root, tool, and tore. For points, the strongest plays are loot, lore, loto, oleo, orle, role, root, rote, rotl, roto, tole, tool, tore, and toro — 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 retool turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lot, toe, and too. For points, the strongest plays are let, loo, lor, lot, ole, oot, ore, ort, ret, roe, roo, rot, tel, toe, too, and tor — 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 retool. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or and to. For points, the strongest plays are el, er, et, lo, oe, or, re, te, and to — 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 retool 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.
retool 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for retool. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
retool is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retool unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are looter, retool, rootle, and tooler, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retool 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 retool produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.