Hidden inside bitrates sit birettas and bitrates, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 303 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
birettas and bitrates tie for the highest Scrabble score from bitrates at 10 points. The top 10 of 303 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in bitrates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bitrates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are birettas and bitrates, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bitrates produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tastier. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including baiters, barites and batiste.
Unscrambling bitrates turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, barest and bitter. For points, 19 words tie at 8 points, including barest, bitter and breast.
There are 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bitrates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with baits, bears and beast. For points, 31 words tie at 7 points, including baits, bears and beast.
Rearranging the letters in bitrates produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts and bait. For points, 36 words tie at 6 points, including bait, bare and bars.
Unscrambling bitrates turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, 16 words tie at 5 points, including bar, bat and bet.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bitrates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in bitrates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bitrates and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
bitrates is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
bitrates is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bitrates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are birettas and bitrates, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bitrates earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in bitrates produce 303 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.