Hidden inside ratribe sit arbiter and rarebit, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
RATRIBE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ARBITER and RAREBIT.
arbiter and rarebit tie for the highest Scrabble score from ratribe at 9 points. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in ratribe produces 2 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 arbiter and rarebit, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ratribe turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are baiter, barite, barret and 3 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratribe. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barer and tribe. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including barer, tribe and barre.
Rearranging the letters in ratribe produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bait, bare and bear. For points, 16 words tie at 6 points, including bait, bare and bear.
Unscrambling ratribe turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including bar, bat and bet.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratribe. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, be, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in ratribe plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ratribe 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 arbiter and rarebit, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ratribe 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 ratribe produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.