Hidden inside retools sit looters, retools, rootles and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
looters, retools, rootles and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from retools at 7 points. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in retools: three come from rearranging its letters, and retools itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are looters, retools, rootles, and toolers, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retools. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loose, loser and roles. For points, 27 words tie at 5 points, including loose, loser and roles.
Rearranging the letters in retools produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lose and lost. For points, 43 words tie at 4 points, including lets, lose and lost.
Unscrambling retools turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lot and set. For points, 29 words tie at 3 points, including let, lot and set.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retools. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and to. For points, 12 words tie at 2 points, including or, so and to.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in retools plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retools 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.
retools 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 retools. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
retools is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retools unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are looters, retools, rootles, and toolers, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retools 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 retools produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.