Hidden inside transat 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.
Unscramble SARTANT, TARANTS or TARSANT and you get the same 7 letters as TRANSAT: so the words from TRANSAT listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
TRANSAT isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to RATTANS, TANTRAS and TARTANS.
rattans, tantras, and tartans tie for the highest Scrabble score from transat at 7 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in transat produces 3 valid seven-letter words. 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 transat 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, strata, tantra, tartan, and tatars, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transat. If a familiar word is all you need, start with start. For points, the strongest plays are antas, antra, attar, rants, ratan, saran, start, tarns, tarts, tatar, and trans — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in transat produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arts, rats, star, stat, and tans. For points, the strongest plays are anas, ansa, anta, ants, arts, rant, rats, stan, star, stat, tans, tarn, tars, tart, tats, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling transat turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, art, ran, rat, sat, and tan. For points, the strongest plays are aas, ana, ant, ars, art, ats, att, ran, ras, rat, san, sat, tan, tar, tas, and tat — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transat. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are aa, an, ar, as, at, na, and ta — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in transat plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in transat 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rattans, tantras, and tartans, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from transat 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 transat 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.