What RETAINS Means
RETAINS is a form of RETAIN, which 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
RETAINS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 E1 T1 A1 I1 N1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 57 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of RETAINS (10)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In RETAINS
339 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.
6 letter words (33)
5 letter words (102)
4 letter words (112)
3 letter words (70)
2 letter words (22)
Next: the full rack page for these seven tiles, and the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.