Hidden inside retracing sit cratering, recrating, retracing and 1 other, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 335 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cratering, recrating, retracing and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from retracing at 12 points. The top 10 of 335 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 nine-letter words hiding in retracing: three come from rearranging its letters, and retracing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cratering, recrating, retracing, and terracing, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retracing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catering, creating, and reacting. For points, the strongest plays are argentic, catering, creating, and reacting — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in retracing produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angrier, certain and cigaret. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including cigaret, anergic and carting.
Unscrambling retracing turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting, caring and eating. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including acting, caring and racing.
There are 76 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retracing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger and cater. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including cigar, grace and acing.
Rearranging the letters in retracing produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cage, care and cart. For points, the strongest plays are cage and crag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retracing turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age and air. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retracing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
8 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in retracing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retracing 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.
retracing 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.
retracing is one of four nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retracing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cratering, recrating, retracing, and terracing, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retracing 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 retracing produce 335 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 76 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.