RATHE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. RATHE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RATHE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RATHE is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RATHE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
ratherChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How RATHE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in RATHE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,682.
What stands out about RATHE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 4 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does RATHE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaicpoetic
Occurring, blooming, or ripening earlier than usual, especially before the main season.
Rathe survives today mainly through John Milton poem Lycidas, which mentions the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, a phrase that kept the word alive in literary memory long after ordinary speech dropped it. In Old English the same root gave rise to rather, originally meaning sooner, so rathe and rather share a common ancestor built around the idea of early timing. Gardeners and poets occasionally revive rathe to describe an early-blooming flower or an unusually early harvest.
How RATHE is used
Archaic and mainly literary today, encountered chiefly in poetry, quotation, or deliberately old-fashioned writing.
- The poem describes a rathe primrose blooming before the frost had lifted.
- Some old almanacs list a rathe apple that ripened weeks before the others.
- She used the rathe blossom as a symbol of a life cut short.
- Only the rathe violets had opened by the first week of March.
- The gardener called it a rathe variety, ready a full month early.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RATHE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of RATHE
The 5 tiles of RATHE in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with RATHE
6 longer words begin with RATHE.
Words with RATHE inside
11 words contain RATHE in the middle. Words that start with RATHE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in RATHE
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Common questions about RATHE
- Is RATHE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RATHE, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RATHE worth?
- RATHE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RATHE mean?
- Occurring, blooming, or ripening earlier than usual, especially before the main season.
- What letters can be added to RATHE?
- RATHE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of RATHE:
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