Hidden inside tartans sit rattans, tantras, and tartans, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rattans, tantras, and tartans tie for the highest Scrabble score from tartans at 7 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in tartans: two come from rearranging its letters, and tartans itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rattans, tantras, and tartans, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tartans turns up 7 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 4 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tartans. If a familiar word is all you need, start with start. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including start, antas and antra.
Rearranging the letters in tartans 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 tartans 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.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tartans plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tartans and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
tartans 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for tartans. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
tartans is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tartans unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rattans, tantras, and tartans, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tartans 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 tartans produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.