Hidden inside retires sit etriers, retires, retries and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 82 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
etriers, retires, retries and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from retires at 7 points. The top 10 of 82 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in retires: three come from rearranging its letters, and retires itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with retires. For points, the strongest plays are etriers, retires, retries, and terries — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retires turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with retire. For points, the strongest plays are etrier, rerise, resite, rester, reties, retire, sirree, terser, and triers — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retires. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steer, tires, trees, and tries. For points, the strongest plays are ester, reest, reset, resit, retie, riser, rites, serer, siree, steer, stere, teres, terse, tiers, tires, trees, trier, and tries — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retires produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rest, rise, site, stir, ties, tire, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are errs, erst, ires, rees, reis, rest, rete, rets, rise, rite, seer, sere, sire, site, stir, tees, tier, ties, tire, tree, and tres — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retires turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, see, set, sir, sit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are ere, err, ers, est, ire, its, ree, rei, res, ret, see, sei, ser, set, sir, sit, sri, tee, tes, tie, and tis — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retires. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, et, is, it, re, si, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
23 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in retires plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in retires 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.
retires 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 retires carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record eleven senses for retires. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
retires is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retires unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are etriers, retires, retries, and terries, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from retires 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 retires produce 82 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.