Hidden inside ratch sit chart and ratch, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 25 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chart and ratch tie for the highest Scrabble score from ratch at 10 points. The top 10 of 25 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in ratch: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ratch itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chart. For points, the strongest plays are chart and ratch — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ratch produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cart and chat. For points, the strongest plays are arch, cath, char, chat, and tach — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ratch turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, art, car, cat, hat, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are hat and rah — 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 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratch. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at, and ha. For points, the strongest plays are ah and ha — 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 ratch 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.
ratch 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 ratch carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for ratch. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
ratch is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ratch unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chart and ratch, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ratch 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 ratch produce 25 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.