Hidden inside raft sit fart, frat, and raft, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fart, frat, and raft tie for the highest Scrabble score from raft at 7 points. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 four-letter words hiding in raft: two come from rearranging its letters, and raft itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fart, frat, and raft, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling raft turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, far, fat, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are aft, arf, far, and fat — 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in raft. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest play is fa — worth 5 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 raft and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
raft 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 raft carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for raft. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
raft is one of three four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing raft unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fart, frat, and raft, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from raft 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 raft produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.