Hidden inside rat sit art, rat, and tar, three-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 3 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 6 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
art, rat, and tar tie for the highest Scrabble score from rat at 3 points. The top 6 of 6 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 three-letter words hiding in rat: two come from rearranging its letters, and rat itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art and rat. For points, the strongest plays are art, rat, and tar — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
40 four-letter words can be made using all the letters in rat plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rat and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
rat 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 rat carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record eleven senses for rat. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 3 points on a Scrabble board:
rat is one of three three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rat unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are art, rat, and tar, worth 3 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rat 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 rat produce 6 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.