ratifier needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 105 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ratifier is the highest-scoring word from ratifier, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 105 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in ratifier — and it is ratifier itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ratifier produces exactly one seven-letter word: fairier. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratifier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including after, afire and afrit.
Rearranging the letters in ratifier produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fair, fate and fear. For points, 20 words tie at 7 points, including fair, fate and fear.
Unscrambling ratifier turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including far, fat and fit.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratifier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, if, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in ratifier plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ratifier 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.
ratifier 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 ratifier carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for ratifier. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
ratifier is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ratifier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ratifier, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ratifier 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 ratifier produce 105 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.