Hidden inside retreads sit arrested, drearest, retreads and 2 others, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 249 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arrested, drearest, retreads and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from retreads at 9 points. The top 10 of 249 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 eight-letter words hiding in retreads: four come from rearranging its letters, and retreads itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrested. For points, the strongest plays are arrested, drearest, retreads, serrated, and treaders — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retreads produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest, retards, and starred. For points, the strongest plays are darters, dearest, derates, readers, redates, redears, rereads, retards, retread, sedater, starred, tasered, traders, and treader — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retreads turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, dearer, desert, easter, erased, rarest, and rested. For points, the strongest plays are darers, darter, daters, dearer, derate, derats, desert, deters, drears, erased, reader, reared, redate, redear, reread, reseda, rested, retard, seared, seated, sedate, stared, tarred, teared, teased, trader, trades, and treads — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 66 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retreads. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dates, dears, deers, eased, erase, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are aedes, darer, dares, darts, dater, dates, dears, deers, deets, derat, deter, drats, drear, drees, drest, eared, eased, erred, rared, rased, rated, reads, redes, reeds, sated, seder, sered, stade, stead, steed, tared, tased, trade, trads, tread, treed, and tsade — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retreads produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, dare, date, dear, deer, ears, and ease. For points, the strongest plays are dare, dart, date, dear, deer, dees, deet, dere, drat, dree, rads, read, rede, reds, reed, sade, sard, seed, tads, teds, teed, and trad — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retreads turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ads, das, dee, eds, rad, red, sad, tad, and ted — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retreads. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 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 retreads and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
retreads 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in retreads carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for retreads. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
retreads is one of five eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retreads unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arrested, drearest, retreads, serrated, and treaders, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retreads 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 retreads produce 249 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 66 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.