retying needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 89 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retying is the highest-scoring word from retying, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 89 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in retying — and it is retying itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retying turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trying. For points, the strongest plays are gentry, trying, and tyring — each worth 10 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 retying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entry, tiger, and tying. For points, the strongest plays are eying, gynie, and tying — 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 retying produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grey, rent, ring, tiny, and tire. For points, the strongest plays are grey, gyre, and gyri — 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 retying turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, net, rig, ten, tie, tin, and try. For points, the strongest play is gey — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and it. For points, the strongest play is ye — worth 5 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 retying 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.
retying 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.
retying is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is retying, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from retying 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 retying produce 89 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.