retouches needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 420 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retouches is the highest-scoring word from retouches, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 420 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in retouches — and it is retouches itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retouches. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are scouther, touchers, and trochees, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retouches produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with touches. For points, the strongest plays are cheeros, chouser, coheres, couther, echoers, etchers, euchres, hectors, rechose, retches, retouch, rochets, rotches, rouches, tochers, torches, toucher, touches, trochee, and troches — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retouches turns up 82 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheers, chores, course, courts, heroes, others, and rescue. For points, the strongest plays are cheero, cheers, cherts, chores, chorus, chouse, chutes, cohere, cosher, couths, creesh, echoer, echoes, etcher, etches, euchre, hector, ochers, ochres, ouches, reecho, rochet, rotche, rouche, ruches, scouth, tocher, touche, troche, and tusche — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 117 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retouches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheer, chest, chore, chose, cores, court, and crush. For points, the strongest plays are cheer, chert, chest, chore, chose, chuse, chute, couth, crush, eches, echos, hocus, ocher, oches, ochre, retch, rotch, ruche, techs, teuch, torch, and touch — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retouches produces 109 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, cost, cues, cure, cute, cuts, and here. For points, the strongest plays are cosh, eche, echo, echt, etch, oche, ouch, such, and tech — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retouches turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cut, her, hot, our, out, and see. For points, the strongest play is och — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retouches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, ho, oh, or, sh, and so. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, ho, oh, sh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in retouches plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retouches and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
retouches 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 retouches. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
retouches is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retouches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is retouches, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from retouches 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 retouches produce 420 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 82 six-letter words, 117 five-letter words, 109 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.