Hidden inside ratse sit aster, rates, resat and 4 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
RATSE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ASTER, RATES, RESAT, STARE, TARES and 2 more.
aster, rates, resat and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ratse at 5 points. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rates, stare, and tears. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including rates, stare and tears.
Rearranging the letters in ratse produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears and east. For points, 28 words tie at 4 points, including arts, ears and east.
Unscrambling ratse turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 25 words tie at 3 points, including are, art and ate.
108 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in ratse plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ratse and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aster, rates, resat, stare, tares, taser, and tears, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ratse 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 ratse produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.