RET is a valid Scrabble word — 3 points
Yes. RET is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 3 points in Scrabble and 3 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RET?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RET is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 8.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RET
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RET scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in RET, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 374.
What does RET mean in Scrabble?
verb
technical
To soak flax or hemp until the fibre separates from the stalk.
Retting is rotting under control: bacteria are allowed to eat the gum holding everything together, and the work is stopped at exactly the right moment. Left in a pond it takes a fortnight and smells accordingly; spread on grass it takes a month and depends on the weather, and the difference shows in the colour of the cloth.
How RET is used
Transitive: to ret flax. The process is retting, and over-retting ruins the crop.
- They ret the flax in the pond behind the mill.
- Flax that has been ret too long falls apart in the hand.
- He rets on grass because the water is too cold.
- Retting is stopped by eye and by smell, not by the clock.
- The crop was ret, dried and broken in the same fortnight.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RET and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with RET
Showing 24 of 664 words that begin with RET.
Words ending in RET
Showing 24 of 80 words that end in RET. Useful as a back hook: play RET onto a word already on the board.
Words with RET inside
Showing 24 of 1037 words that contain RET somewhere in the middle. Words that start with RET are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in RET
Common questions about RET
- Is RET valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RET, where it scores 3 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RET worth?
- RET is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 3 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RET mean?
- To soak flax or hemp until the fibre separates from the stalk.
- What letters can be added to RET?
- RET takes 5 hooks: 3 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of RET:
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