Hidden inside rattans sit rattans, tantras, and tartans, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rattans, tantras, and tartans tie for the highest Scrabble score from rattans at 7 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in rattans: two come from rearranging its letters, and rattans itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rattans, tantras, and tartans, 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 rattans turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are attars, ratans, rattan, strata, tantra, tartan, and tatars, 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rattans. If a familiar word is all you need, start with start. For points, the strongest plays are antas, antra, attar, rants, ratan, saran, start, tarns, tarts, tatar, and trans — 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 rattans produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts, rats, star, stat, and tans. For points, the strongest plays are anas, ansa, anta, ants, arts, rant, rats, stan, star, stat, tans, tarn, tars, tart, tats, 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 rattans turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, art, ran, rat, sat, and tan. For points, the strongest plays are aas, ana, ant, ars, art, ats, att, ran, ras, rat, san, sat, tan, tar, tas, and tat — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rattans. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are aa, an, ar, as, at, na, and ta — each worth 2 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 rattans 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.
rattans 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for rattans. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
rattans is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rattans unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rattans, tantras, and tartans, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rattans 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 rattans produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.