Hidden inside rtdea sit dater, derat, rated and 3 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
RTDEA isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DATER, DERAT, RATED, TARED, TRADE and 1 more.
dater, derat, rated and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from rtdea at 6 points. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rtdea. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trade. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including trade, dater and derat.
Rearranging the letters in rtdea produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date and dear. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including dare, date and dear.
Unscrambling rtdea turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, the strongest plays are rad, red, tad, and ted — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rtdea. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
42 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in rtdea plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rtdea and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dater, derat, rated, tared, trade, and tread, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rtdea 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 rtdea produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.