Hidden inside ratal sit altar, artal, ratal and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
altar, artal, ratal and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ratal at 5 points. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in ratal: three come from rearranging its letters, and ratal itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altar. For points, the strongest plays are altar, artal, ratal, and talar — 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 ratal produces 2 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alar and tala, 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 ratal turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art and rat. For points, the strongest plays are aal, ala, alt, art, lar, lat, rat, and tar — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest plays are aa, al, ar, at, la, and ta — 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 ratal 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.
ratal 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.
ratal is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ratal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are altar, artal, ratal, and talar, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ratal 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 ratal produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 2 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.