Hidden inside ottars sit ottars, stator, tarots and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ottars, stator, tarots and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ottars at 6 points. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in ottars: three come from rearranging its letters, and ottars itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ottars, stator, tarots, and tortas, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ottars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roast, start, and toast. For points, the strongest plays are ottar, ratos, roast, rotas, sorta, start, stoat, taros, tarot, tarts, toast, toras, torta, torts, and trots — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ottars produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, rats, sort, star, and stat. For points, the strongest plays are aros, arts, oars, oast, oats, orts, osar, rato, rats, rota, rots, soar, sora, sort, star, stat, stoa, stot, taos, taro, tars, tart, tats, tora, tors, tort, tosa, tost, tots, trot, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ottars turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, rat, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are aro, ars, art, ats, att, oar, oat, ora, ors, ort, ras, rat, rot, sat, sot, tao, tar, tas, tat, tor, and tot — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ottars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ar, as, at, or, os, so, ta, and to — 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 ottars and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
ottars 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in ottars carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for ottars. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
ottars is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ottars unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ottars, stator, tarots, and tortas, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ottars 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 ottars produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.