Hidden inside ratites sit artiest, artiste, attires and 4 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 184 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
artiest, artiste, attires and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ratites at 7 points. The top 10 of 184 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 seven-letter words hiding in ratites: six come from rearranging its letters, and ratites itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tastier. For points, the strongest plays are artiest, artiste, attires, iratest, ratites, striate, and tastier — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ratites turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, sitter, and treats. For points, the strongest plays are airest, artist, artsie, attire, ratite, satire, sitter, stater, strait, strati, striae, taster, taters, terais, tetras, tetris, titers, titres, traits, treats, and triste — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raise, rates, stair, stare, start, state, and taste. For points, the strongest plays are airts, arise, aster, astir, irate, raise, rates, reais, resat, resit, retia, rites, serai, sitar, stair, stare, start, state, stria, tares, tarsi, tarts, taser, taste, tater, tates, tears, teats, terai, testa, tetra, tetri, tiers, tires, titer, titre, trait, treat, trets, tries, and trite — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ratites produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, ears, east, eats, eras, and rate. For points, the strongest plays are airs, airt, aits, ares, arie, arse, arts, ates, ears, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, ires, rais, rase, rate, rats, reis, rest, rets, rias, rise, rite, sari, sate, sati, sear, seat, sera, seta, sett, sire, site, star, stat, stet, stir, tare, tars, tart, tase, tate, tats, tear, teas, teat, test, tets, tier, ties, tire, tits, tres, tret, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ratites turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are air, ais, ait, are, ars, art, ate, ats, att, ear, eat, era, ers, est, eta, ire, its, rai, ras, rat, rei, res, ret, ria, sae, sat, sea, sei, ser, set, sir, sit, sri, tae, tar, tas, tat, tea, tes, tet, tie, tis, and tit — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, ar, as, at, er, es, et, is, it, re, si, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
35 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in ratites plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ratites and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
ratites 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 ratites carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for ratites. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
ratites is one of seven seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ratites unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are artiest, artiste, attires, iratest, ratites, striate, and tastier, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ratites 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 ratites produce 184 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.