Unscramble RETINAS and you have 248 words, RETINAS itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. It has 10 anagrams at 7 points each, among them ANESTRI, ANTSIER and NASTIER. The best shorter words score 6: 35 of them, INSERT, STRAIN and RETAIN included. The 7 letters split into 3 vowels and 4 consonants. All 7 tiles of RETINAS in one turn: 57 in Scrabble (7 + 50), 43 in Words With Friends (8 + 35).
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from RETINAS by length: 11 with 7 letters, 35 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 22 with 2.
All 35 of the 6-letter words in RETINAS score 6 points. INSERT, STRAIN and RETAIN are the ones most people know.
Every one of the 60 5-letter words from RETINAS scores 5. RATES, SAINT and RAISE are everyday picks.
The 4-letter words you get when you unscramble RETINAS come to 60, each scoring 4 points. RATE, EAST and ARTS are the familiar ones.
All 60 of the 3-letter words you get when you unscramble RETINAS score 3 points. ARE, ITS and SET are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of RETINAS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with RE · ending in AS · all 7-letter words
The meaning of RETINAS, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
RETINAS works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| RETINAS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 248) | 198 | 247 | 182 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 49 of them: RESIANT, STARNIE, ARTIES, RAINES, TRANSE, AESIR, ARETS, ARTIS, EARNT, EARST, INTRA, ISNAE and 37 more. Words With Friends* skips 16 of them: ARTSIE, SARNIE, SEITAN, STRINE, REAIS, RESAT, RESIT, ARIE, NAES, NARE, RAIS, ATS and 4 more. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: ITER.
With one more tile, the letters of RETINAS spell the words below.