Hidden inside retrace sit caterer, recrate, retrace and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
caterer, recrate, retrace and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from retrace at 9 points. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in retrace: three come from rearranging its letters, and retrace itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caterer. For points, the strongest plays are caterer, recrate, retrace, and terrace — 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 retrace turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with career and create. For points, the strongest plays are career, carter, cerate, crater, create, ecarte, and tracer — 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retrace. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cater and react. For points, the strongest plays are carer, caret, carte, cater, crate, erect, racer, react, recta, terce, and trace — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retrace produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cart, race, rare, rate, tear, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are acre, care, carr, cart, cate, cere, cert, cete, race, and tace — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retrace turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are, art, ate, car, cat, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, car, cat, cee, rec, and tec — each worth 5 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 retrace. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, at, er, et, re, ta, and te — 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 retrace 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.
retrace 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 retrace. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
retrace is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retrace unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are caterer, recrate, retrace, and terrace, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retrace 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 retrace produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.