Hidden inside retreats sit retreats and treaters, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 179 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retreats and treaters tie for the highest Scrabble score from retreats at 8 points. The top 10 of 179 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in retreats: one comes from rearranging its letters, and retreats itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are retreats and treaters, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retreats produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with starter. For points, the strongest plays are estreat, ratters, restart, restate, retaste, retears, retreat, serrate, starter, tearers, terrets, and treater — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retreats turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, easter, estate, rarest, street, and treats. For points, the strongest plays are aretes, arrest, easter, eaters, eraser, estate, rarest, raster, raters, ratter, reseat, rester, retear, retest, searer, seater, setter, starer, stater, street, tarres, tarter, taster, taters, tearer, teaser, terrae, terras, terret, terser, testae, tester, tetras, and treats — 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 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retreats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, rates, stare, start, state, steer, and taste. For points, the strongest plays are arete, aster, easer, eater, erase, ester, rares, raser, rater, rates, rears, reest, resat, reset, saree, serer, setae, stare, start, state, steer, stere, tares, tarre, tarts, taser, taste, tater, tates, tears, tease, teats, teres, terra, terse, testa, tetra, treat, trees, and trets — 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 retreats produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, and rare. For points, the strongest plays are ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, errs, erst, etas, rare, rase, rate, rats, rear, rees, rest, rete, rets, sate, sear, seat, seer, sera, sere, seta, sett, star, stat, stet, tare, tars, tart, tase, tate, tats, tear, teas, teat, tees, test, tets, tree, tres, tret, and tsar — 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 retreats turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are are, ars, art, ate, ats, att, ear, eat, era, ere, err, ers, est, eta, ras, rat, ree, res, ret, sae, sat, sea, see, ser, set, tae, tar, tas, tat, tea, tee, tes, and tet — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retreats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, at, er, es, 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 retreats 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.
retreats 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 retreats carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record eleven senses for retreats. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
retreats is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retreats unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retreats and treaters, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retreats 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 retreats produce 179 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.