What RETAIN Means
- verb: hold back within“This soil retains water”
- verb: allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature“We cannot continue several servants any longer”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
RETAIN is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 E1 T1 A1 I1 N1.
Anagrams of RETAIN (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In RETAIN
111 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
5 letter words (16)
4 letter words (39)
AINEAIRNAIRTANTEANTIARETARTIEARNEINAETNANARENEARNEATNITERAINRAITRANIRANTRATEREANREINRENTRINERITETAINTANETARETARNTEARTEINTERNTIANTIARTIERTINATINETIRETRIETRIN
3 letter words (39)
AINAIRAITANEANIANTAREARTATEEANEAREATERAERNETAIREITANAENATNETNIENITRAIRANRATREIRENRETRIARINRITTAETAITANTARTEATENTIETIN
2 letter words (17)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.