Hidden inside notarial sit notarial and rational, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 186 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
notarial and rational tie for the highest Scrabble score from notarial at 8 points. The top 10 of 186 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in notarial: one comes from rearranging its letters, and notarial 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 notarial and rational, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling notarial produces exactly one seven-letter word: alation. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling notarial turns up 19 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antiar, antral, aortal and 16 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in notarial. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altar, trail, train, and trial. For points, 36 words tie at 5 points, including altar, trail and train.
Rearranging the letters in notarial produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, iron and liar. For points, 68 words tie at 4 points, including into, iron and liar.
Unscrambling notarial turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and art. For points, 41 words tie at 3 points, including air, ant and art.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in notarial. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and in. For points, 19 words tie at 2 points, including an, at and in.
12 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in notarial plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in notarial 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.
notarial 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
notarial is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing notarial unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are notarial and rational, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from notarial 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 notarial produce 186 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 19 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.