Hidden inside ratmers sit armrest and smarter, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
RATMERS isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ARMREST and SMARTER.
armrest and smarter tie for the highest Scrabble score from ratmers at 9 points. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in ratmers produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with smarter. For points, the strongest plays are armrest and smarter — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ratmers turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, master, and rarest. For points, the strongest plays are armers, armets, master, maters, matres, ramets, rearms, stream, and tamers — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratmers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mates, meats, rates, smart, stare, steam, and teams. For points, the strongest plays are armer, armet, mares, marse, marts, maser, mater, mates, meats, ramet, reams, rearm, satem, smart, smear, steam, tamer, tames, teams, terms, trams, and trems — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ratmers produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, arts, ears, east, eats, eras, and mate. For points, the strongest plays are arms, maes, mare, mars, mart, mast, mate, mats, meat, mesa, meta, rams, ream, rems, same, seam, stem, tame, tams, team, term, tram, and trem — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ratmers turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are arm, ems, mae, mar, mas, mat, mes, met, ram, rem, and tam — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratmers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in ratmers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ratmers 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are armrest and smarter, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ratmers 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 ratmers produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.