Rataplan is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 143 anagrams from letters in rataplan (aaalnprt).
1840-50; French; imitative
Then they have a "rataplan" duet, which may be called a repetition of Marie's solo with an accompaniment of rataplans.
rataplan, rat-a-plong′, n. the sound or rattle of the military drum, a tattoo.
Then she laughed, and drummed the rataplan again with her brass heel.
They turned in at the rataplan and drew up at the carriage entrance.
Oh, they were getting on very well indeed when the rataplan was reached.
Their machine-guns would sound the rataplan as the belts were emptied.
I had a moment of triumph also when we sang the rataplan, rataplan.
The first furious stampede had settled into a rapid trot, to a sound like the sound of a hundred muffled drums beating a rataplan.
Not the best suited for little Mabsy; but she'll catch at the rataplan.
It was the rataplan beating before a troop of wrestlers and jugglers who were traversing the Marche and Reggio Emilia.