Ratites is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.
You can make 255 anagrams from letters in ratites (aeirstt).
1875-80; Latin rat(is) raft + -ite2
Lastly must be noted the extinct tall ratite species of Aepyornis with its several fancy genera.
Like other ratite birds it will take to the water, and examples have been seen voluntarily swimming a wide river.
The arrangement bears a great resemblance to that of ratite birds.