tartar needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 6 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 13 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tartar is the highest-scoring word from tartar, worth 6 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 13 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in tartar — and it is tartar itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tartar. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are attar and tatar, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling tartar produces exactly one four-letter word: tart. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 4 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tartar turns up 5 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art and rat. For points, the strongest plays are art, att, rat, tar, and tat — 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tartar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest plays are aa, 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 tartar and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
tartar 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 tartar carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for tartar. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
tartar is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tartar unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tartar, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tartar 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 tartar produce 13 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 1 four-letter word, 5 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.