Hidden inside retour sit router and tourer, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
router and tourer tie for the highest Scrabble score from retour at 6 points. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling retour turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are router and tourer, 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 retour. If a familiar word is all you need, start with outer, route, and truer. For points, the strongest plays are outer, outre, retro, route, and truer — 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 retour produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tore, tour, and true. For points, the strongest plays are euro, rote, roue, rout, ruer, tore, torr, tour, trou, true, and turr — 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 retour turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with our, out, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are err, ore, ort, our, out, ret, roe, rot, rue, rut, toe, tor, and ute — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retour. 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, to, and ut — 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 retour 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are router and tourer, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retour 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 retour produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.