Hidden inside tar sit art, rat, and tar, three-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 3 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 6 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
art, rat, and tar tie for the highest Scrabble score from tar at 3 points. The top 6 of 6 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 three-letter words hiding in tar: two come from rearranging its letters, and tar itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art and rat. For points, the strongest plays are art, rat, and tar — 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 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest plays are ar, at, and ta — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in tar and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
tar 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in tar carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for tar. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 3 points on a Scrabble board:
tar is one of three three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tar unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are art, rat, and tar, worth 3 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tar 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 tar produce 6 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.