ritards needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 93 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ritards is the highest-scoring word from ritards, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 93 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in ritards — and it is ritards itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ritards turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ritard, sirdar, and triads, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ritards. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stair. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including adits, darts and dirts.
Rearranging the letters in ritards produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs and arts. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including aids, dirt and rids.
Unscrambling ritards turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, 10 words tie at 4 points, including ads, aid and ids.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ritards. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in ritards 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.
ritards 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 ritards carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
ritards is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ritards unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ritards, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ritards 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 ritards produce 93 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.