Hidden inside ratooners sit ratooners and resonator, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 351 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ratooners and resonator tie for the highest Scrabble score from ratooners at 9 points. The top 10 of 351 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in ratooners: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ratooners itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ratooners and resonator, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratooners. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antrorse, ratooner, and sororate, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ratooners produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rooster and senator. For points, the strongest plays are atoners, enroots, errants, orators, ranters, ratoons, roaster, rooster, rooters, santero, santoor, senator, serrano, snorter, toreros, and treason — 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 ratooners turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, rarest, and reason. For points, the strongest plays are antres, arrest, arseno, astern, atoner, atones, enroot, errant, nestor, nooser, noters, oaters, orates, orator, ornate, osetra, ranter, rarest, raster, raters, ratoon, reason, resort, retorn, retros, rooser, rooter, roster, rostra, rotors, sartor, senora, snarer, snorer, soarer, sooner, sorner, sorter, starer, sterna, stoner, storer, tarres, tenors, tensor, terras, toners, torero, torose, tronas, and trones — 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 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratooners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, notes, rates, rents, roast, roots, and saner. For points, the strongest plays are aeons, antes, antre, arose, arson, aster, atone, earns, etnas, nares, nates, nears, neats, nerts, noose, noter, notes, oaten, oater, onset, orate, rants, rares, raser, rater, rates, ratos, rears, renos, rents, reran, resat, retro, roans, roars, roast, roose, roost, roots, roset, rotas, rotes, rotor, rotos, saner, santo, senor, seton, snare, snoot, snore, snort, sonar, sorer, sorta, stane, stare, steno, stern, stoae, stone, store, tares, tarns, taros, tarre, taser, tears, tenor, terns, terra, toeas, toner, tones, toons, toras, tores, toros, torrs, torse, torso, trans, trona, and trone — 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 ratooners produces 109 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts, earn, ears, east, eats, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are aeon, aero, anes, ante, ants, ares, aros, arse, arts, ates, earn, ears, east, eats, eons, eras, erns, eros, errs, erst, etas, etna, naes, naos, nare, near, neat, nest, nets, noes, nose, nota, note, oars, oast, oats, ones, onos, onto, oots, ores, orra, orts, osar, rant, rare, rase, rate, rato, rats, rear, reno, rent, rest, rets, roan, roar, roes, roos, root, rose, rota, rote, roto, rots, sane, sate, sear, seat, sent, sera, seta, snot, soar, sone, soon, soot, sora, sore, sorn, sort, stan, star, stoa, tans, taos, tare, tarn, taro, tars, tase, tear, teas, tens, tern, toea, toes, tone, tons, toon, tora, tore, torn, toro, torr, tors, tosa, tres, 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 ratooners turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ane, ant, are, aro, ars, art, ate, ats, ear, eat, ens, eon, era, ern, err, ers, est, eta, nae, net, noo, nor, nos, not, oar, oat, oes, one, ono, ons, oot, ora, ore, ors, ort, ose, ran, ras, rat, res, ret, roe, roo, rot, sae, san, sat, sea, sen, ser, set, son, sot, tae, tan, tao, tar, tas, tea, ten, tes, toe, ton, too, and tor — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratooners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, ar, as, at, en, er, es, et, na, ne, no, oe, on, or, os, re, so, ta, te, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in ratooners plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ratooners and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
ratooners 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.
ratooners is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ratooners unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ratooners and resonator, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ratooners 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 ratooners produce 351 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 109 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.