ratifiers needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 291 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ratifiers is the highest-scoring word from ratifiers, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 291 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in ratifiers — and it is ratifiers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratifiers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fairiest, firriest, friaries and 3 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ratifiers produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fairest and fairies. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including fairest, fairies and fairier.
Unscrambling ratifiers turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, fairer, faster, and rarest. For points, 21 words tie at 9 points, including fairer, faster and afrits.
There are 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratifiers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, fates and fears. For points, 36 words tie at 8 points, including after, fates and fears.
Rearranging the letters in ratifiers produces 85 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts and ears. For points, 35 words tie at 7 points, including fair, fast and fate.
Unscrambling ratifiers turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, 16 words tie at 6 points, including far, fat and fit.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratifiers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and if. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in ratifiers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ratifiers 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.
ratifiers 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 ratifiers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for ratifiers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
ratifiers is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ratifiers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ratifiers, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ratifiers 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 ratifiers produce 291 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 85 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.