tartrates 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, 146 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tartrates is the highest-scoring word from tartrates, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 146 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in tartrates — and it is tartrates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tartrates produces exactly one eight-letter word: tartrate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tartrates produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with starter. For points, the strongest plays are erratas, ratters, restart, starter, stretta, tartare, tartars, tartest, and tatters — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tartrates turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, rarest, and treats. For points, the strongest plays are arrest, attars, attest, errata, rarest, raster, raters, ratter, reatas, starer, stater, strata, tarres, tartar, tarter, taster, tatars, taters, tatter, terras, tetras, and treats — 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 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tartrates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, rates, stare, start, state, taste, and tears. For points, the strongest plays are areas, arras, aster, attar, rares, raser, rater, rates, rears, reata, resat, stare, start, state, tares, tarre, tarts, taser, taste, tatar, tater, tates, tears, teats, terra, testa, tetra, treat, and trets — 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 tartrates produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, arts, ears, east, eats, eras, and rare. For points, the strongest plays are area, ares, arse, arts, asea, ates, ears, east, eats, eras, errs, erst, etas, rare, rase, rate, rats, rear, rest, rets, sate, sear, seat, sera, seta, sett, star, stat, stet, tare, tars, tart, tase, tate, tats, tear, teas, teat, test, tets, tres, tret, and tsar — 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 tartrates turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are aas, are, ars, art, ate, ats, att, ear, eat, era, err, ers, est, eta, ras, rat, res, ret, sae, sat, sea, ser, set, tae, tar, tas, tat, tea, tes, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tartrates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, ar, as, at, er, es, et, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in tartrates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tartrates 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.
tartrates 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 tartrates carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for tartrates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tartrates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tartrates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tartrates, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tartrates 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 tartrates produce 146 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.