Hidden inside retting sit gittern and retting, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gittern and retting tie for the highest Scrabble score from retting at 8 points. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in retting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and retting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gittern and retting, 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 retting turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is engirt, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tiger. For points, the strongest plays are reign, renig, tiger, and tinge — 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 retting produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rent, ring, tent, and tire. For points, the strongest plays are gent, gien, girn, girt, gite, grin, grit, ring, ting, and trig — 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 retting turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, net, rig, ten, tie, tin, and tit. For points, the strongest plays are eng, erg, gen, get, gie, gin, git, neg, reg, rig, and teg — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — 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 retting and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
retting 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
retting is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gittern and retting, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retting 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 retting produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.