Hidden inside ranter sit errant and ranter, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 55 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
errant and ranter tie for the highest Scrabble score from ranter at 6 points. The top 10 of 55 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in ranter: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ranter 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 errant and ranter, 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 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ranter. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antre, rater, reran, tarre, and terra, 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 ranter produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, near, neat, rare, rate, rent, and tear. For points, the strongest plays are ante, earn, etna, nare, near, neat, rant, rare, rate, rear, rent, tare, tarn, tear, and tern — 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 ranter turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ane, ant, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, ern, err, eta, nae, net, ran, rat, ret, tae, tan, tar, tea, and ten — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ranter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, ar, at, en, er, et, na, ne, re, ta, and te — 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 ranter 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.
ranter 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for ranter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
ranter is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ranter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are errant and ranter, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ranter 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 ranter produce 55 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.