Hidden inside rattles sit latters, rattles, starlet and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 181 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
latters, rattles, starlet and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from rattles at 7 points. The top 10 of 181 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in rattles: three come from rearranging its letters, and rattles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with startle. For points, the strongest plays are latters, rattles, starlet, and startle — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling rattles turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, latest, lattes, and treats. For points, the strongest plays are alerts, alters, artels, estral, laster, latest, latter, lattes, ratels, rattle, salter, slater, staler, stater, stelar, talers, taster, taters, tetras, and treats — 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 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rattles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, laser, later, latte, least, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are alert, alter, arles, artel, aster, earls, lares, laser, later, latte, lears, least, rales, ratel, rates, reals, resat, seral, setal, slate, stale, stare, start, state, steal, stela, taels, taler, tales, tares, tarts, taser, taste, tater, tates, teals, tears, teats, tesla, testa, tetra, treat, and trets — 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 rattles produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, eats, eras, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are ales, alts, ares, arse, arts, ates, earl, ears, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, lars, lase, last, late, lats, lear, leas, lest, lets, rale, rase, rate, rats, real, rest, rets, sale, salt, sate, seal, sear, seat, sera, seta, sett, slat, star, stat, stet, tael, tale, tare, tars, tart, tase, tate, tats, teal, tear, teas, teat, tela, tels, test, tets, tres, tret, and tsar — 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 rattles turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and let. For points, the strongest plays are ale, als, alt, are, ars, art, ate, ats, att, ear, eat, els, era, ers, est, eta, lar, las, lat, lea, let, ras, rat, res, ret, sae, sal, sat, sea, sel, ser, set, tae, tar, tas, tat, tea, tel, tes, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rattles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, ar, as, at, el, er, es, et, la, 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.
25 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in rattles plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rattles 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.
rattles 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 five senses for rattles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
rattles is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rattles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are latters, rattles, starlet, and startle, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rattles 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 rattles produce 181 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.