Hidden inside ratifies sit fairiest and ratifies, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 236 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fairiest and ratifies tie for the highest Scrabble score from ratifies at 11 points. The top 10 of 236 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in ratifies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ratifies 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 fairiest and ratifies, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ratifies produces 3 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: fairest and fairies, worth 10 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ratifies turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with faster. For points, the strongest plays are afrits, afters, faster, ferias, fiesta, fraise, frites, iftars, refits, resift, rifest, sifter, strafe, and strife — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratifies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, fates, fears, fires, first, fries, and raise. For points, the strongest plays are afire, afrit, after, fairs, fares, farts, fates, fears, feast, feats, feist, feria, festa, fetas, fiars, fiats, fires, first, frats, frets, fries, frise, frits, iftar, rafts, refit, reifs, rifts, safer, serif, and trefa — 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 ratifies produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, ears, east, eats, eras, and fair. For points, the strongest plays are arfs, efts, fair, fare, fart, fast, fate, fats, fear, feat, fest, feta, fets, fiar, fiat, fire, firs, fist, fits, frae, frat, fret, frit, raft, refs, reft, reif, rife, rifs, rift, safe, seif, serf, sift, and tref — 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 ratifies turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are aft, arf, efs, eft, far, fas, fat, fer, fes, fet, fie, fir, fit, ifs, ref, and rif — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratifies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, if, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — each 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 ratifies 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.
ratifies 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 ratifies carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for ratifies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
ratifies is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ratifies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fairiest and ratifies, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ratifies 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 ratifies produce 236 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.