retardation needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 544 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retardation is the highest-scoring word from retardation, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 544 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in retardation — and it is retardation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling retardation turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antitrade, attainder, and retardant, 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 25 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retardation. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adroiter, antidora, antidote, arointed, attained, attorned, deration, intorted, narrated, nitrated, ordainer, ordinate, radiator, rationed, reordain, teratoid, tetanoid, and traditor, 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 retardation produces 41 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trained, trainer, and traitor. For points, the strongest plays are adorner, aeradio, airdate, aneroid, antired, araneid, attired, detrain, diatron, dottier, drainer, notated, radiant, radiate, randier, readorn, rotated, tainted, tardier, tarried, tiaraed, trained, and trident — 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 retardation turns up 102 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attend, donate, editor, errand, rained, retard, and rotten. For points, the strongest plays are adnate, adorer, adroit, airted, ardent, arider, atoned, attend, darner, darter, denari, detain, dinero, donair, donate, dotier, dotter, droner, editor, errand, inroad, iodate, ironed, nidate, orated, ordain, radian, raider, rained, ranted, ratted, retard, retrod, rident, rioted, ritard, roadie, roared, rodent, rotted, tarred, tarted, tetrad, tinder, tinted, tirade, toited, torrid, trader, trined, and triode — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 129 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retardation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, aired, diner, drain, drier, order, and radio. For points, the strongest plays are adore, adorn, aider, aired, andro, anode, anted, ardor, aroid, atted, danio, darer, dater, datto, deair, denar, derat, dinar, diner, direr, ditto, doter, drain, drear, drier, droit, drone, ident, irade, nadir, naiad, noted, oared, order, oread, radar, radio, radon, rando, ranid, rared, rated, redan, redia, redon, rider, ronde, tardo, tared, teind, tined, tired, tondi, toned, toted, trade, tread, trend, triad, tried, and trode — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in retardation produces 134 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, dare, data, date, dear, diet, and dine. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, arid, dare, darn, dart, data, date, dato, dean, dear, deni, dent, diet, dine, dino, dint, dire, dirt, dita, dite, doat, doer, doit, dona, done, dore, dorr, dote, drat, edit, idea, ired, nada, nard, nerd, nide, node, nodi, odea, orad, raid, rand, read, redo, rend, ride, rind, road, rode, roid, tend, tide, tied, toad, toed, trad, and trod — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling retardation turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, and, ant, are, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are ado, aid, and, dan, den, die, din, dit, doe, don, dor, dot, end, nod, oda, ode, rad, red, rid, rod, tad, ted, and tod — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in retardation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, do, id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, do, ed, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 twelve-letter words can be made using all the letters in retardation plus one additional letter.
retardation 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.
Dictionaries record five senses for retardation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
retardation is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing retardation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is retardation, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from retardation 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 retardation produce 544 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 25 eight-letter words, 41 seven-letter words, 102 six-letter words, 129 five-letter words, 134 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.