Hidden inside tattler sit tartlet and tattler, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tartlet and tattler tie for the highest Scrabble score from tattler at 7 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tattler: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tattler 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 tartlet and tattler, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tattler turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are latter, rattle, tatter, and tattle, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tattler. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and later. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including alert, alter and later.
Rearranging the letters in tattler produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with late, rate and real. For points, 16 words tie at 4 points, including late, rate and real.
Unscrambling tattler turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 22 words tie at 3 points, including are, art and ate.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tattler plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tattler 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.
tattler 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 two senses for tattler. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
tattler is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tattler unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tartlet and tattler, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tattler 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 tattler produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.