ratify needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble FITRAY, FRIYAT or AFIRTY and you get the same 6 letters as RATIFY: so the words from RATIFY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
ratify is the highest-scoring word from ratify, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in ratify — and it is ratify itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ratify produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fair and tray. For points, the strongest play is fray — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ratify turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, art and far. For points, the strongest plays are fay and fry — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratify. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, ay, if, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ay, fa, if, and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in ratify plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ratify and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
ratify 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.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for ratify. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
ratify is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ratify unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ratify, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ratify 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 ratify produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.