arbalist needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 231 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arbalist is the highest-scoring word from arbalist, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 231 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in arbalist — and it is arbalist itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in arbalist produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are barista, basilar, and tribals, 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 arbalist turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altars, trails, and trials. For points, the strongest plays are abatis, arabis, baltis, basalt, brails, brasil, libras, rabats, tablas, and tribal — 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 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arbalist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altar, bails, baits, blast, brats, liars, and stair. For points, the strongest plays are abris, albas, baals, bails, baits, balas, balsa, balti, basal, basil, birls, blast, blats, brail, brats, brits, labia, labra, libra, rabat, rabis, sabal, sabir, sabra, and tabla — 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 arbalist produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, bail, bait, bars, bats, and bits. For points, the strongest plays are abas, abri, alba, albs, arbs, baal, baas, bail, bait, bals, bars, bast, bats, bias, birl, bits, blat, bras, brat, bris, brit, isba, labs, libs, rabi, ribs, slab, stab, and tabs — 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 arbalist turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, art, bar, bat, bit, bra, and its. For points, the strongest plays are aba, abs, alb, arb, baa, bal, bar, bas, bat, bis, bit, bra, lab, lib, rib, sab, sib, 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arbalist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, 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 arbalist and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
arbalist 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for arbalist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
arbalist is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arbalist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is arbalist, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from arbalist 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 arbalist produce 231 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.