Hidden inside rafts sit farts, frats, and rafts, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
farts, frats, and rafts tie for the highest Scrabble score from rafts at 8 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in rafts: two come from rearranging its letters, and rafts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are farts, frats, and rafts, 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 rafts produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, fast, rats, and star. For points, the strongest plays are arfs, fart, fast, fats, 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 rafts turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, far, fat, rat, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are aft, arf, far, fas, 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rafts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and 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 rafts and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
rafts 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 rafts carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for rafts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
rafts is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rafts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are farts, frats, and rafts, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rafts 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 rafts produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.