Hidden inside arboretum sit arboretum and tambourer, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 281 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arboretum and tambourer tie for the highest Scrabble score from arboretum at 13 points. The top 10 of 281 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in arboretum: one comes from rearranging its letters, and arboretum itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arboretum and tambourer, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling arboretum produces exactly one eight-letter word: tabourer. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in arboretum produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maturer. For points, the strongest plays are bromate, outbeam, and tambour — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling arboretum turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mature. For points, the strongest plays are tambur and umbrae — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arboretum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, about, barer, outer, route, rumor, and truer. For points, the strongest plays are amber, bream, brome, brume, embar, omber, ombre, rumba, umber, and umbra — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in arboretum produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, auto, bare, beam, bear, beat, and boat. For points, the strongest plays are ambo, barm, beam, bema, berm, mabe, tomb, and umbo — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling arboretum turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, art, ate, bam, bar, and bat. For points, the strongest plays are bam, bum, and mob — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arboretum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, be, me, or, to, and um. For points, the strongest plays are ab, am, ba, be, bo, em, ma, me, mo, mu, om, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in arboretum plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in arboretum 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.
arboretum 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 3-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 arboretum. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
arboretum is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arboretum unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arboretum and tambourer, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arboretum 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 arboretum produce 281 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.