Hidden inside whattar is one standout: athwart, a seven-letter play worth 13 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble THWARAT, TARWATH or WATTHRA and you get the same 7 letters as WHATTAR: so the words from WHATTAR listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
WHATTAR isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ATHWART (adverb), from side to side, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
athwart is the highest-scoring word from whattar, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling whattar produces exactly one seven-letter word: athwart. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling whattar produces exactly one six-letter word: thwart. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in whattar. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are thraw and wrath, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in whattar produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with that and what. For points, the strongest plays are thaw, waah, and what — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling whattar turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha and art. For points, the strongest plays are haw and wha — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in whattar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at, aw, and ha. For points, the strongest plays are ah, aw, and ha — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in whattar plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in whattar 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 play from these letters is athwart, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from whattar 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 whattar produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.