Hidden inside rattlers sit rattlers and startler, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 207 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rattlers and startler tie for the highest Scrabble score from rattlers at 8 points. The top 10 of 207 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in rattlers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rattlers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rattlers and startler, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in rattlers produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with starter and startle. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including starter, startle and latters.
Unscrambling rattlers turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters and arrest. For points, 30 words tie at 6 points, including alerts, alters and arrest.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rattlers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and laser. For points, 49 words tie at 5 points, including alert, alter and laser.
Rearranging the letters in rattlers produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears and east. For points, 64 words tie at 4 points, including arts, ears and east.
Unscrambling rattlers turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 41 words tie at 3 points, including are, art and ate.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rattlers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, 13 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and ae.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in rattlers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rattlers and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
rattlers 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 rattlers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
rattlers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rattlers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rattlers and startler, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rattlers 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 rattlers produce 207 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.