Hidden inside rattoons sit arnottos, notators, and rattoons, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 159 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arnottos, notators, and rattoons tie for the highest Scrabble score from rattoons at 8 points. The top 10 of 159 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in rattoons: two come from rearranging its letters, and rattoons 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 arnottos, notators, and rattoons, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rattoons produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arnotto, attorns, notator, ratoons, rattons, rattoon, and santoor, 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 rattoons turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are attorn, nattos, ottars, ratoon, ratton, stator, tantos, tarots, tortas, and tronas, 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 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rattoons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roast, roots, start, and toast. For points, the strongest plays are arson, natto, ottar, ottos, rants, ratos, roans, roast, roost, roots, rotas, rotos, santo, snoot, snort, sonar, sorta, start, stoat, tanto, tarns, taros, tarot, tarts, toast, toons, toots, toras, toros, torot, torso, torta, torts, trans, trona, and trots — 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 rattoons produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts, onto, rats, root, soon, and sort. For points, the strongest plays are ants, aros, arts, naos, nota, oars, oast, oats, onos, onto, oots, orts, osar, otto, rant, rato, rats, roan, roos, root, rota, roto, rots, snot, soar, soon, soot, sora, sorn, sort, stan, star, stat, stoa, stot, tans, taos, tarn, taro, tars, tart, tats, tons, toon, toot, tora, torn, toro, tors, tort, tosa, tost, tots, trot, 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 rattoons turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, art, nor, not, ran, rat, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are ant, aro, ars, art, ats, att, noo, nor, nos, not, oar, oat, ono, ons, oot, ora, ors, ort, ran, ras, rat, roo, rot, san, sat, son, sot, tan, tao, tar, tas, tat, ton, too, tor, and tot — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rattoons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are an, ar, as, at, na, no, on, or, os, so, ta, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in rattoons plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rattoons 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.
rattoons 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.
rattoons is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rattoons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arnottos, notators, and rattoons, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rattoons 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 rattoons produce 159 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.