Hidden inside rater sit rater, tarre, and terra, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rater, tarre, and terra tie for the highest Scrabble score from rater at 5 points. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in rater: two come from rearranging its letters, and rater itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rater, tarre, and terra, 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 rater produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rare, rate, and tear. For points, the strongest plays are rare, rate, rear, tare, and tear — 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 rater turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, err, eta, rat, ret, tae, tar, and tea — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rater. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, at, er, et, re, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
37 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in rater plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rater 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.
rater 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 rater carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
rater is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rater unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rater, tarre, and terra, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rater 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 rater produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.