Rathe is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.
You can make 87 anagrams from letters in rathe (aehrt).
before 900; Middle English; Old English hræth, hræd quick, active; cognate with Dutch rad, Old Norse hrathr
Ihr lebet nun oder sterbet, so darff euch Gott in seinem rathe.
rathe is, I believe, identical with the Saxon adjective rtha, signifying early.