Hidden inside altar sit altar, artal, ratal and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
altar, artal, ratal and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from altar at 5 points. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in altar: three come from rearranging its letters, and altar itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altar. For points, the strongest plays are altar, artal, ratal, and talar — 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 altar produces 2 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alar and tala, 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 altar turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art and rat. For points, the strongest plays are aal, ala, alt, art, lar, lat, rat, and tar — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in altar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at. For points, the strongest plays are aa, al, ar, at, la, 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 altar and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
altar 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 altar. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
altar is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing altar unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are altar, artal, ratal, and talar, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from altar 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 altar produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 2 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.