ratepayer needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 166 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ratepayer is the highest-scoring word from ratepayer, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 166 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in ratepayer — and it is ratepayer itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ratepayer produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is partyer, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ratepayer turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prayer and repeat. For points, the strongest plays are prayer, preyer, and retype — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratepayer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apart and party. For points, the strongest plays are apery, parry, party, payee, payer, peaty, peery, perry, pryer, and repay — 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 ratepayer produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, part, pray, rare, rate, tape, and tear. For points, the strongest plays are paty, pray, prey, pyre, and type — 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 ratepayer turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, art, ate, aye, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are pay, pry, pya, pye, yap, and yep — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratepayer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in ratepayer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ratepayer and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
ratepayer 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 ratepayer carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for ratepayer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
ratepayer is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ratepayer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ratepayer, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ratepayer 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 ratepayer produce 166 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.