Hidden inside tarantas sit tantaras, tarantas, and tartanas, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 67 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tantaras, tarantas, and tartanas tie for the highest Scrabble score from tarantas at 8 points. The top 10 of 67 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in tarantas: two come from rearranging its letters, and tarantas 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 tantaras, tarantas, and tartanas, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tarantas produces 5 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 rattans, tantara, tantras and 2 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tarantas turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are attars, ratans, rattan and 5 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarantas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with start. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including start, antas and antra.
Rearranging the letters in tarantas produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts and rats. For points, 16 words tie at 4 points, including ants, arts and rats.
Unscrambling tarantas turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, art and ran. For points, 16 words tie at 3 points, including ant, art and ran.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in tarantas plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tarantas 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.
tarantas 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.
tarantas is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tarantas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tantaras, tarantas, and tartanas, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tarantas 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 tarantas produce 67 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.