ratepayers needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 442 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ratepayers is the highest-scoring word from ratepayers, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 442 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in ratepayers — and it is ratepayers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ratepayers produces exactly one nine-letter word: ratepayer. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratepayers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with separate. For points, the strongest play is partyers — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ratepayers produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prayers and repeats. For points, the strongest plays are apyrase, partyer, prayers, preyers, respray, retypes, satrapy, and sprayer — each 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 ratepayers turns up 70 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, easter, prayer, rarest, repeat, and sparer. For points, the strongest plays are pastry, payees, payers, prayer, preyer, pryers, repays, retype, sparry, and spryer — 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 133 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratepayers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apart, areas, erase, parts, party, pasta, and prays. For points, the strongest plays are apery, parry, party, pasty, patsy, payee, payer, peaty, peery, perry, pesty, prays, preys, pryer, pyres, raspy, repay, seepy, spray, and types — 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 ratepayers produces 122 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, area, arts, part, past, pays, and peas. For points, the strongest plays are paty, pays, pray, prey, pyas, pyes, pyre, spay, spry, espy, type, yaps, and yeps — 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 ratepayers turns up 71 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, spy, 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratepayers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, 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.
ratepayers 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 ratepayers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for ratepayers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
ratepayers is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ratepayers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ratepayers, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ratepayers 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 ratepayers produce 442 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 70 six-letter words, 133 five-letter words, 122 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.