Hidden inside ratting sit ratting and tarting, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 82 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ratting and tarting tie for the highest Scrabble score from ratting at 8 points. The top 10 of 82 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in ratting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ratting 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 ratting and tarting, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ratting turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rating. For points, the strongest plays are atting, gratin, rating, and taring — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giant, grant, and train. For points, the strongest plays are garni, giant, grain, grant, and tragi — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ratting produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, rain, rang, and ring. For points, the strongest plays are agin, gain, gait, girn, girt, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, grin, grit, ragi, rang, ring, tang, ting, and trig — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ratting turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, art, nag, rag, ran, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are gan, gar, gat, gin, git, nag, rag, rig, and tag — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ratting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 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 ratting 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.
ratting 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 ratting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
ratting is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ratting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ratting and tarting, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ratting 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 ratting produce 82 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.