Unscramble RETIREMENT and you have 211 words, RETIREMENT itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, INTERTERM leads with 11 points. The 10 letters split into 4 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from RETIREMENT split into 1 with 10 letters, 1 with 9, 6 with 8, 19 with 7, 48 with 6, 35 with 5, 57 with 4, 31 with 3 and 13 with 2.
INTERTERM is the only one of the 9-letter words in RETIREMENT; it scores 11 points.
Of the 19 7-letter words from RETIREMENT, 7 score 9 points, the group's best. RETIREE, TERMITE and EMITTER are the ones most people know.
48 6-letter words you get when you unscramble RETIREMENT; 20 of them share the top score of 8. ENTIRE, RETIRE and RENTER are everyday picks.
Of the 35 5-letter words from RETIREMENT, 16 score 7 points, the group's best. ENTER, METER and INTER are the ones most people know.
Among 57 4-letter words in RETIREMENT, the top score is 6, reached by 26. TIME, ITEM and TEEN are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of RETIREMENT but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with RE · ending in NT · all 10-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by REMITTER, TERMINER and TRIMETER (10 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. RETIREMENT is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| RETIREMENT itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 211) | 163 | 210 | 155 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 47 of them: REMITTEE, MINETTE, MENEER, MERRIE, REINETTE, TEENTIER, TEMENE, TREMIE, INERM, INERTER, MEINT, REMEN and 35 more. Words With Friends* skips 8 of them: TERMINER, MENTEE, ETRIER, RERENT, TREM, TETRI, TEIN and TE. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: ITER.
Each word below uses all the letters of RETIREMENT and one more.