Hidden inside rationally sit notarially and rationally, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 295 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
notarially and rationally tie for the highest Scrabble score from rationally at 13 points. The top 10 of 295 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in rationally: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rationally itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are notarially and rationally, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rationally produces exactly one nine-letter word: antiroyal. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rationally. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are atonally and tarnally, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in rationally produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anality, laniary, orality and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rationally turns up 31 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alanyl, aliyot, anally and 8 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rationally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altar, irony and loyal. For points, 26 words tie at 8 points, including irony, loyal and rally.
Rearranging the letters in rationally produces 104 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, iron and liar. For points, 27 words tie at 7 points, including only, tiny and tray.
Unscrambling rationally turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, all and ant. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including any, lay and toy.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rationally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
rationally 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 2-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 rationally. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
rationally is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rationally unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are notarially and rationally, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rationally 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 rationally produce 295 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 104 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.