tarlatans needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 122 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tarlatans is the highest-scoring word from tarlatans, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 122 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in tarlatans — and it is tarlatans itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarlatans. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tantaras, tarantas, tarlatan, and tartanas, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tarlatans 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 rattans, saltant, stratal and 4 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tarlatans turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altars. For points, 18 words tie at 6 points, including altars, alants and antral.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarlatans. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altar and start. For points, 29 words tie at 5 points, including altar, start and alans.
Rearranging the letters in tarlatans produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts and last. For points, 30 words tie at 4 points, including ants, arts and last.
Unscrambling tarlatans turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, art and ran. For points, 24 words tie at 3 points, including ant, art and ran.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in tarlatans plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tarlatans 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.
tarlatans 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
tarlatans is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tarlatans unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tarlatans, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tarlatans 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 tarlatans produce 122 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.