Hidden inside tarletan sit alterant and tarletan, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 142 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alterant and tarletan tie for the highest Scrabble score from tarletan at 8 points. The top 10 of 142 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tarletan: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tarletan 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 alterant and tarletan, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling tarletan produces exactly one seven-letter word: tetanal. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tarletan turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with talent. For points, the strongest plays are antler, antral, lanate, latent, latten, latter, learnt, natter, rattan, ratten, rattle, rental, talent, tantra, tarnal, and tartan — 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 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarletan. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, altar, alter, later, latte, learn, and treat. For points, the strongest plays are alane, alant, alate, alert, altar, alter, anear, antae, antra, antre, areal, arena, artal, artel, attar, larnt, laten, later, latte, leant, learn, natal, ratal, ratan, ratel, reata, renal, talar, taler, tatar, tater, tetra, and treat — 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 tarletan produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, earn, lane, late, lean, lent, and near. For points, the strongest plays are alae, alan, alar, anal, anta, ante, area, earl, earn, elan, etna, lane, larn, late, lean, lear, lent, nala, nare, near, neat, nett, rale, rant, rate, real, rent, tael, tala, tale, tare, tarn, tart, tate, teal, tear, teat, tela, tent, tern, and tret — 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 tarletan turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are aal, ala, ale, alt, ana, ane, ant, are, art, ate, att, ear, eat, era, ern, eta, lar, lat, lea, let, nae, net, ran, rat, ret, tae, tan, tar, tat, tea, tel, ten, and tet — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarletan. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and at. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, al, an, ar, at, el, en, er, et, la, na, ne, re, ta, and te — 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 tarletan 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.
tarletan 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.
tarletan is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tarletan unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alterant and tarletan, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tarletan 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 tarletan produce 142 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 16 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.