Hidden inside ratables sit arbalest and ratables, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 305 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arbalest and ratables tie for the highest Scrabble score from ratables at 10 points. The top 10 of 305 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in ratables: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ratables itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arbalest and ratables, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ratables produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abaters, ablates, abreast and 5 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ratables turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, alerts and altars. For points, 21 words tie at 8 points, including ablest, barest and breast.
There are 86 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratables. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, alert and altar. For points, 44 words tie at 7 points, including abler, bears and beast.
Rearranging the letters in ratables produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, area and arts. For points, 37 words tie at 6 points, including able, bare and bars.
Unscrambling ratables turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 18 words tie at 5 points, including bar, bat and bet.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratables. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in ratables plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ratables and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
ratables is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record one sense for ratables. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
ratables is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ratables unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arbalest and ratables, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ratables 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 ratables produce 305 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 86 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.