302 words come out when you unscramble RETRACING, starting with RETRACING itself: 12 in Scrabble, 15 in Words With Friends. RETRACING has 3 anagrams here, CRATERING, RECRATING and TERRACING, scoring 12 like RETRACING itself. The 9 letters split into 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from RETRACING by length: 4 with 9 letters, 6 with 8, 33 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 19 with 2.
Of the 33 7-letter words from RETRACING, 7 score 10 points, the group's best. CERTAIN, TRAINER and TERRAIN are the ones most people know.
60 6-letter words you get when you unscramble RETRACING; 10 of them share the top score of 9. RATING, RACING and EATING are everyday picks.
Among 60 5-letter words from RETRACING, the top score is 8, reached by 7. GREAT, RANGE and AGENT are the familiar ones.
CAGE, CANG and CRAG share the top score of 7 among the 4-letter words in RETRACING. CARE, CART and NICE are the ones most people know.
CAG and CIG are the top 3-letter words made with RETRACING letters, 6 points each. ARE, CAN and GET will look familiar.
Keep every letter of RETRACING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with RE · ending in NG · all 9-letter words
The meaning of RETRACING, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept RETRACING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| RETRACING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 302) | 242 | 302 | 223 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
60 of the 302 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CITRANGE, GRECIAN, TRANCIER, CANTIER, CARNIER, CRINATE, GRICER, NACRITE, ANETIC, ARRECT, CANIER, CRAIG and 48 more. 19 of the 302 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: TACRINE, CENTAI, RECIT, TAGINE, CERT, CIG, CRIA, CRIT, GATER, RAGER, AREG, GEAN and 7 more.
Each word below uses all the letters of RETRACING and one more.