Hidden inside ratifies sit fairiest and ratifies, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 236 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fairiest and ratifies tie for the highest Scrabble score from ratifies at 11 points. The top 10 of 236 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in ratifies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ratifies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fairiest and ratifies, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ratifies produces 3 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: fairest and fairies, worth 10 points apiece in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ratifies turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with faster. For points, 14 words tie at 9 points, including faster, afrits and afters.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratifies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, fates and fears. For points, 31 words tie at 8 points, including after, fates and fears.
Rearranging the letters in ratifies produces 82 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 ratifies turns up 55 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 ratifies. 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.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in ratifies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ratifies 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.
ratifies 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 ratifies carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for ratifies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
ratifies is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ratifies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fairiest and ratifies, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ratifies 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 ratifies produce 236 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.