arbitrary needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 69 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arbitrary is the highest-scoring word from arbitrary, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 69 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in arbitrary — and it is arbitrary itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling arbitrary produces exactly one eight-letter word: barratry. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling arbitrary turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are baryta and briary, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arbitrary. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is barry, 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 arbitrary produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bait, brat, and tray. For points, the strongest play is bray — 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 arbitrary turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, art, bar, bat, bay, bit, and bra. For points, the strongest plays are aby and bay — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arbitrary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, ay, by, and it. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 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 arbitrary 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.
arbitrary 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in arbitrary carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for arbitrary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
arbitrary is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arbitrary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is arbitrary, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from arbitrary 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 arbitrary produce 69 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.