retouching needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 581 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retouching is the highest-scoring word from retouching, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 581 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in retouching — and it is retouching itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retouching turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hectoring and tochering, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retouching. If a familiar word is all you need, start with touching. For points, the strongest plays are cohering, euchring, ochering, retching, theurgic, torching, and touching — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retouching produces 45 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with counter, hurting, routine, and tougher. For points, the strongest plays are choregi, choring, chuting, cougher, echoing, etching, ochring, ouching, and ruching — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retouching turns up 101 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with curing, enough, erotic, heroin, hunter, ignore, and notice. For points, the strongest plays are chigoe, eching, gothic, grinch, grouch, and grutch — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 150 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retouching. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choir, chore, cough, count, court, cuter, and cutie. For points, the strongest plays are ching, cough, ginch, gitch, gonch, and gotch — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retouching produces 136 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, chin, coin, cone, core, corn, and cure. For points, the strongest play is chug — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retouching turns up 99 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue, cut, ego, get, got, and gun. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, ich, and och — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retouching. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, go, he, hi, ho, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, ho, oh, 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 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in retouching plus one additional letter.
retouching 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
retouching is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retouching unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is retouching, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from retouching 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 retouching produce 581 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 21 eight-letter words, 45 seven-letter words, 101 six-letter words, 150 five-letter words, 136 four-letter words, 99 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.