Hidden inside ratteners sit natterers and ratteners, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 317 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
natterers and ratteners tie for the highest Scrabble score from ratteners at 9 points. The top 10 of 317 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in ratteners: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ratteners itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are natterers and ratteners, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratteners. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are entreats, natterer, ratteens and 4 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ratteners produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern, nearest, neatest, and starter. For points, 32 words tie at 7 points, including eastern, nearest and neatest.
Unscrambling ratteners turns up 65 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, easter and enters. For points, 65 words tie at 6 points, including arrest, easter and enters.
There are 76 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratteners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, eaten and enter. For points, 76 words tie at 5 points, including earns, eaten and enter.
Rearranging the letters in ratteners produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts and earn. For points, 76 words tie at 4 points, including ants, arts and earn.
Unscrambling ratteners turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are and art. For points, 45 words tie at 3 points, including ant, are and art.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratteners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, 14 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in ratteners plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ratteners and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
ratteners 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.
ratteners is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ratteners unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are natterers and ratteners, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ratteners 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 ratteners produce 317 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 65 six-letter words, 76 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.