Unscramble RETARDATE to get 164 words. RETARDATE itself is a real word: 10 points on a Scrabble board, 10 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is RETRATED, 9 points. The 9 letters split into 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
R1E1T1A1R1D2A1T1E1
Words from RETARDATE by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 9 with 7, 30 with 6, 41 with 5, 41 with 4, 26 with 3 and 15 with 2.
There is a single one of the 8-letter words in RETARDATE: RETRATED, 9 points.
Of the 30 6-letter words from RETARDATE, 20 score 7 points, the group's best. READER, TRADER and ERRATA are the ones most people know.
23 of 41 5-letter words you get when you unscramble RETARDATE tie at 6 points; none scores more. TRADE, RATED and TREAT will look familiar.
Of the 41 4-letter words from RETARDATE, 21 score 5 points, the group's best. DATE, DATA and READ are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of RETARDATE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with RE · ending in TE · all 9-letter words
The meaning of RETARDATE, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
RETARDATE is playable in Scrabble US, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| RETARDATE itself | Yes | No | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 164) | 125 | 163 | 121 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: RETRATED, ARETTED, ADRATE, DARTRE, DREARE, RETRATE, AREAD, AREDE, DARRE, DEARE, DREER, DRERE and 27 more, 39 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: TARTARE, ATTED, DA and TE, 4 in all. Not in Scrabble UK: RETARDATE.
These 2 words take every letter of RETARDATE plus a single extra one.