Unscramble RETAIN and you have 117 words, RETAIN itself among them: it scores 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. 2 anagrams of RETAIN are on the page: RATINE and RETINA, each 6 points. 6 letters: 3 vowels and 3 consonants.
NIRTAE unscrambles to RETAIN: these are all the words its letters make. Looking for tinare, rateni, atrnie, inater, arntie, tearin, intaer, ertain, antier or eratin? They use the same letters as RETAIN, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Words from RETAIN by length: 3 with 6 letters, 17 with 5, 41 with 4, 39 with 3 and 17 with 2.
All 41 of the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble RETAIN score 4 points. RATE, NEAR and ANTI are the ones most people know.
These 6 words have the length of RETAIN, with one letter different:
More 6-letter words: starting with RE · ending in IN · all 6-letter words
What RETAIN means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept RETAIN, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| RETAIN itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 117) | 93 | 116 | 87 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
23 of the 117 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: EARNT, INTRA, RAINE, AINE, ARET, ARTI, EINA, RAIT, REAN, RINE, TANE, TIAR and 11 more. 6 of the 117 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: ARIE, NARE, TEIN, TIAN, RAI and TE. 1 of the 117 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.
These 12 words take every letter of RETAIN plus a single extra one.