arbalists needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 289 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arbalists is the highest-scoring word from arbalists, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 289 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in arbalists — and it is arbalists itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arbalists. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arbalist and baristas, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in arbalists produces 11 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, basalts, basilar, brasils, 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 arbalists turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altars, blasts, stairs, trails, and trials. For points, the strongest plays are abatis, arabis, balsas, baltis, basalt, basils, blasts, brails, brasil, libras, rabats, sabals, sabirs, sabras, 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 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arbalists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altar, bails, baits, basis, blast, brats, and lasts. For points, the strongest plays are abris, albas, baals, bails, baits, balas, balsa, balti, basal, basil, basis, bassi, basts, birls, blast, blats, bliss, brail, brass, brats, briss, brits, isbas, labia, labra, libra, rabat, rabis, sabal, sabir, sabra, slabs, stabs, 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 arbalists produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, bail, bait, bars, bass, and bats. For points, the strongest plays are abas, abri, alba, albs, arbs, baal, baas, bail, bait, bals, bars, bass, bast, bats, bias, birl, bits, blat, bras, brat, bris, brit, isba, labs, libs, rabi, ribs, sabs, sibs, 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 arbalists turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, art, ass, bar, bat, bit, and bra. 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 arbalists. 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 arbalists and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
arbalists 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 arbalists. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
arbalists is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arbalists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is arbalists, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from arbalists 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 arbalists produce 289 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.