Hidden inside tterear sit retreat and treater, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
TTEREAR isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to RETREAT and TREATER.
retreat and treater tie for the highest Scrabble score from tterear at 7 points. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in tterear produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are retreat and treater, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tterear turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ratter, retear, tarter and 3 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tterear. If a familiar word is all you need, start with treat. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including treat, arete and eater.
Rearranging the letters in tterear produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rare, rate, tear, and tree. For points, 11 words tie at 4 points, including rare, rate and tear.
Unscrambling tterear turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 19 words tie at 3 points, including are, art and ate.
11 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tterear plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tterear 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retreat and treater, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tterear 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 tterear produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.