Hidden inside ratten sit natter and ratten, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 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.
natter and ratten tie for the highest Scrabble score from ratten at 6 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in ratten: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ratten itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are natter and ratten, 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 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratten. If a familiar word is all you need, start with treat. For points, the strongest plays are antre, tater, tetra, and treat — 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 ratten produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, near, neat, rate, rent, tear, and tent. For points, the strongest plays are ante, earn, etna, nare, near, neat, nett, rant, rate, rent, tare, tarn, tart, tate, tear, teat, tent, tern, and tret — 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 ratten turns up 23 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, art, ate, att, ear, eat, era, ern, eta, nae, net, ran, rat, ret, tae, tan, tar, tat, tea, ten, and tet — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratten. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, ar, at, en, er, et, na, ne, re, ta, and te — 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 ratten and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
ratten 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.
ratten is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ratten unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are natter and ratten, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ratten 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 ratten produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.