Hidden inside ratsbane sit antbears and ratsbane, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 252 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antbears and ratsbane tie for the highest Scrabble score from ratsbane at 10 points. The top 10 of 252 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in ratsbane: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ratsbane itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antbears and ratsbane, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ratsbane produces 5 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 abaters, abreast, antbear, and banters, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ratsbane turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barest and breast. For points, the strongest plays are abaser, abater, abates, absent, banter, barest, baster, brants, breast, brents, rabats, and tabers — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 63 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratsbane. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, barns, beans, bears, beast, beats, and brats. For points, the strongest plays are abase, abate, abets, banes, bares, barns, baser, baste, bates, beans, bears, beast, beats, bents, betas, braes, brans, brant, brats, brens, brent, nabes, rabat, saber, sabra, sabre, taber, and tabes — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ratsbane produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, area, arts, bans, bare, barn, and bars. For points, the strongest plays are abas, abet, arbs, baas, baes, bane, bans, bare, barn, bars, base, bast, bate, bats, bean, bear, beat, bens, bent, best, beta, bets, brae, bran, bras, brat, bren, nabe, nabs, nebs, rebs, sabe, stab, and tabs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ratsbane turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, art, ate, ban, bar, and bat. For points, the strongest plays are aba, abs, arb, baa, bae, ban, bar, bas, bat, ben, bes, bet, bra, nab, neb, reb, sab, and tab — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratsbane. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in ratsbane and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
ratsbane 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 ratsbane. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
ratsbane is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ratsbane unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antbears and ratsbane, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ratsbane 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 ratsbane produce 252 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 63 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.