280 words come out when you unscramble RETRACTIVE, starting with RETRACTIVE itself: 15 in Scrabble, 17 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are CREATIVE, REACTIVE and TRACTIVE, 13 points each. 10 letters: 4 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Words from RETRACTIVE by length: 1 with 10 letters, 5 with 8, 31 with 7, 56 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 54 with 3 and 13 with 2. None has 9 letters.
CAVETTI tops the 7-letter words in RETRACTIVE at 12 points; next come AVERTER and AVIETTE on 10. TERRACE, RETREAT and CITRATE will look familiar.
56 6-letter words you get when you unscramble RETRACTIVE; 4 of them share the top score of 11. CREATE, ACTIVE and CAREER are everyday picks.
10 of 60 5-letter words from RETRACTIVE tie at 10 points; none scores more. RIVER, TRACE and TRACT will look familiar.
CAVE, CIVE and VICE share the top score of 9 among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble RETRACTIVE. CARE, RATE and CART are the ones most people know.
VAC tops the 3-letter words from RETRACTIVE at 8 points; next come AVE and EVE on 6. ARE, CAR and ART will look familiar.
Trade one tile of RETRACTIVE for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 10-letter words: starting with RE · ending in VE · all 10-letter words
What RETRACTIVE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: RETRACTIVE is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| RETRACTIVE itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 280) | 220 | 279 | 204 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CAVIER, AVIETTE, EVIRATE, EVITATE, RETRAICT, RIVERET, TAIVERT, VRAIC, CARIERE, CIVE, TAIVER, TAVERT and 47 more, 59 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: RETRACTIVE, AVERTER, VAREC, ATRETIC, RAVIER, VETTER, RECIT, TARTIER, CERT, CRIA, CRIT, ETRIER and 4 more, 16 in all. Not in Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.
With one more tile, the letters of RETRACTIVE spell the words below.