Rataplans is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 292 anagrams from letters in rataplans (aaalnprst).
1840-50; French; imitative
Their machine-guns would sound the rataplan as the belts were emptied.
Then they have a "rataplan" duet, which may be called a repetition of Marie's solo with an accompaniment of rataplans.
Then she laughed, and drummed the rataplan again with her brass heel.
rataplan, rat-a-plong′, n. the sound or rattle of the military drum, a tattoo.
They turned in at the rataplan and drew up at the carriage entrance.
It was the rataplan beating before a troop of wrestlers and jugglers who were traversing the Marche and Reggio Emilia.
Not the best suited for little Mabsy; but she'll catch at the rataplan.
I had a moment of triumph also when we sang the rataplan, rataplan.
Oh, they were getting on very well indeed when the rataplan was reached.
The first furious stampede had settled into a rapid trot, to a sound like the sound of a hundred muffled drums beating a rataplan.