Hidden inside rafters sit fraters, rafters, and strafer, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 146 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fraters, rafters, and strafer tie for the highest Scrabble score from rafters at 10 points. The top 10 of 146 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in rafters: two come from rearranging its letters, and rafters 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 fraters, rafters, and strafer, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling rafters turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, faster, and rarest. For points, the strongest plays are afters, farers, faster, frater, rafter, and strafe — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rafters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, fates, fears, rates, safer, stare, and tears. For points, the strongest plays are after, farer, fares, farts, fates, fears, feast, feats, festa, fetas, frats, frets, rafts, safer, and trefa — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rafters produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, eats, eras, fast, and fate. For points, the strongest plays are arfs, efts, fare, fart, fast, fate, fats, fear, feat, fest, feta, fets, frae, frat, fret, raft, refs, reft, safe, serf, and tref — 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 rafters turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and far. For points, the strongest plays are aft, arf, efs, eft, far, fas, fat, fer, fes, fet, and ref — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rafters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each 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 rafters 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.
rafters 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 rafters carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for rafters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
rafters is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rafters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fraters, rafters, and strafer, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rafters 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 rafters produce 146 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.