Hidden inside rattlings sit rattlings and startling, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 354 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rattlings and startling tie for the highest Scrabble score from rattlings at 10 points. The top 10 of 354 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in rattlings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rattlings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with startling. For points, the strongest plays are rattlings and startling — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rattlings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with starting. For points, the strongest plays are rattling, slatting, starling, and starting — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rattlings produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasting, ratings, staring, and tasting. For points, the strongest plays are gastrin, gratins, lasting, ratings, ratting, salting, slating, staling, staring, stating, tarting, and tasting — 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 rattlings turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, giants, grants, rating, signal, string, and trails. For points, the strongest plays are algins, aligns, argils, atting, gainst, gaslit, giants, glairs, glints, gnarls, grails, grains, grants, gratin, gratis, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, rasing, rating, sating, signal, strang, string, taring, and tasing — 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 99 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rattlings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, giant, girls, grant, liars, nails, and rains. For points, the strongest plays are agist, algin, align, angst, argil, gains, gaits, garni, giant, gilts, girls, girns, girts, glair, glans, glias, glint, gnarl, gnars, gnats, grail, grain, grans, grant, grins, grist, grits, liang, ligan, linga, lings, ragis, rangs, rings, sigla, signa, slang, sling, staig, stang, sting, tangs, tings, tragi, and trigs — 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 rattlings produces 111 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants, arts, gain, gals, girl, and last. For points, the strongest plays are agin, gain, gait, gals, gars, gast, gats, gilt, gins, girl, girn, girt, gist, gits, glia, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, grin, grit, lags, lang, ling, nags, ragi, rags, rang, rigs, ring, sang, sign, sing, slag, snag, stag, tags, 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 rattlings turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, art, gal, gas, its, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are ags, gal, gan, gar, gas, gat, gin, gis, git, lag, nag, rag, rig, sag, sig, 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rattlings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in rattlings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rattlings 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.
rattlings 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for rattlings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
rattlings is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rattlings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rattlings and startling, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rattlings 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 rattlings produce 354 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 99 five-letter words, 111 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.