arouses needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 7 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 109 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arouses is the highest-scoring word from arouses, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 109 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in arouses — and it is arouses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arouses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roses. For points, 24 words tie at 5 points, including roses, arose and arses.
Rearranging the letters in arouses produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, eras and ours. For points, 37 words tie at 4 points, including ears, eras and ours.
Unscrambling arouses turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ass and ear. For points, 29 words tie at 3 points, including are, ass and ear.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arouses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, or, so, and us. For points, 11 words tie at 2 points, including as, or and so.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in arouses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in arouses 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.
arouses 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 seven senses for arouses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
arouses is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arouses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is arouses, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from arouses 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 arouses produce 109 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.