Hidden inside retros sit resort, retros, roster and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 59 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
resort, retros, roster and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from retros at 6 points. The top 10 of 59 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in retros: four come from rearranging its letters, and retros itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are resort, retros, roster, sorter, and storer, 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 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retros. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sorer and store. For points, the strongest plays are retro, roset, rotes, sorer, store, tores, torrs, and torse — 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 retros produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, rose, sore, sort, toes, and tore. For points, the strongest plays are eros, errs, erst, ores, orts, rest, rets, roes, rose, rote, rots, sore, sort, toes, tore, torr, tors, and tres — 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 retros turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with set and toe. For points, the strongest plays are err, ers, est, oes, ore, ors, ort, ose, res, ret, roe, rot, ser, set, sot, tes, toe, and tor — 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 retros. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, et, oe, or, os, re, so, te, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
34 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in retros plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retros and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
retros 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 retros carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for retros. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
retros is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retros unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are resort, retros, roster, sorter, and storer, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retros 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 retros produce 59 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.