Hidden inside retort sit retort and rotter, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retort and rotter tie for the highest Scrabble score from retort at 6 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in retort: one comes from rearranging its letters, and retort 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 retort and rotter, 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 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retort. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are otter, retro, rotte, torte, and toter, 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 retort produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tore. For points, the strongest plays are rote, tore, torr, tort, tote, tret, and trot — 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 retort turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with toe. For points, the strongest plays are err, ore, ort, ret, roe, rot, tet, toe, tor, and tot — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retort. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or and to. For points, the strongest plays are er, et, 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 retort 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.
retort 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 retort carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for retort. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
retort is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retort unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retort and rotter, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retort 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 retort produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.