rattler needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 7 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble LTTERRA, TARLERT or TARRELT and you get the same 7 letters as RATTLER: so the words from RATTLER listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
rattler is the highest-scoring word from rattler, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in rattler — and it is rattler itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rattler turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are latter, ratter, rattle and 2 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rattler. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and later. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including alert, alter and later.
Rearranging the letters in rattler produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with late, rare and rate. For points, 18 words tie at 4 points, including late, rare and rate.
Unscrambling rattler turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 23 words tie at 3 points, including are, art and ate.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in rattler plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rattler 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.
rattler 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 two senses for rattler. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
rattler is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rattler unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is rattler, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from rattler 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 rattler produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.