Hidden inside arbiter sit arbiter and rarebit, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arbiter and rarebit tie for the highest Scrabble score from arbiter at 9 points. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in arbiter: one comes from rearranging its letters, and arbiter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arbiter and rarebit, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling arbiter turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are baiter, barite, barret, barter, rebait, and terbia, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arbiter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barer and tribe. For points, the strongest plays are barer, barre, biter, briar, brier, rebar, taber, and tribe — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in arbiter produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bait, bare, bear, beat, bite, brat, and rare. For points, the strongest plays are abet, abri, bait, bare, bate, bear, beat, beta, bier, birr, bite, brae, brat, brie, brit, and rabi — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling arbiter turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ate, bar, bat, and bet. For points, the strongest plays are arb, bae, bar, bat, bet, bit, bra, brr, reb, rib, and tab — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arbiter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, be, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in arbiter and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
arbiter is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for arbiter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
arbiter is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arbiter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arbiter and rarebit, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arbiter earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in arbiter produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.