retrieved needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retrieved is the highest-scoring word from retrieved, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in retrieved — and it is retrieved itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retrieved. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are diverter, reverted, and verditer, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in retrieved produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with retired. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including deriver, everted and redrive.
Unscrambling retrieved turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with driver and retire. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including driver, derive and divert.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retrieved. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drier, drive and river. For points, the strongest plays are diver, drive, and rived — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in retrieved produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, diet and dirt. For points, the strongest plays are devi, dive, vide, and vied — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retrieved turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, eve and red. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retrieved. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in retrieved 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.
retrieved 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.
retrieved is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retrieved unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is retrieved, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from retrieved 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 retrieved produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.