Hidden inside erratic sit cirrate and erratic, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cirrate and erratic tie for the highest Scrabble score from erratic at 9 points. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in erratic: one comes from rearranging its letters, and erratic itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cirrate and erratic, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling erratic turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carter, crater, racier, and tracer, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in erratic. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cater and react. For points, the strongest plays are areic, carer, caret, carte, cater, ceria, citer, crate, crier, erica, racer, react, recit, recta, recti, ricer, trace, triac, and trice — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in erratic produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cart, race, rare, rate, rice, and tear. For points, the strongest plays are acre, care, carr, cart, cate, cert, cire, cite, cria, crit, etic, race, rice, and tace — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling erratic turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, are, art, ate, car, and cat. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, car, cat, ice, rec, tec, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in erratic. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, ar, at, er, et, it, re, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in erratic and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
erratic is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for erratic. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
erratic is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing erratic unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cirrate and erratic, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from erratic 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 erratic produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.