Hidden inside retorts sit retorts, rotters, and stertor, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 89 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retorts, rotters, and stertor tie for the highest Scrabble score from retorts at 7 points. The top 10 of 89 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in retorts: two come from rearranging its letters, and retorts 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 retorts, rotters, and stertor, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retorts turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are otters, resort, retort, retros, roster, rotter, rottes, sorter, storer, tortes, and toters, 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retorts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sorer and store. For points, the strongest plays are otter, retro, roset, rotes, rotte, sorer, store, tores, torrs, torse, torte, torts, toter, totes, trets, and trots — 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 retorts produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, rose, sore, sort, test, toes, and tore. For points, the strongest plays are eros, errs, erst, ores, orts, rest, rets, roes, rose, rote, rots, sett, sore, sort, stet, stot, test, tets, toes, tore, torr, tors, tort, tost, tote, tots, tres, 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 retorts turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with set and toe. For points, the strongest plays are err, ers, est, oes, ore, ors, ort, ose, res, ret, roe, rot, ser, set, sot, tes, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retorts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, et, oe, or, os, re, so, 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 retorts 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.
retorts 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 retorts carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for retorts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
retorts is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retorts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retorts, rotters, and stertor, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retorts 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 retorts produce 89 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.