Hidden inside arcing sit arcing, caring, and racing, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arcing, caring, and racing tie for the highest Scrabble score from arcing at 9 points. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in arcing: two come from rearranging its letters, and arcing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caring and racing. For points, the strongest plays are arcing, caring, and racing — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arcing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cigar. For points, the strongest plays are acing and cigar — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in arcing produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, rain, rang, and ring. For points, the strongest play is crag — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling arcing turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, can and car. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
27 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in arcing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in arcing and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
arcing 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.
arcing is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arcing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arcing, caring, and racing, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arcing 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 arcing produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.