arduously needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 196 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arduously is the highest-scoring word from arduously, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 196 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in arduously — and it is arduously itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in arduously produces 2 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 arduous and sudoral, 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 arduously turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dourly and sudary, 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 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arduously. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loads, lords, lousy, roads, sadly, solar, and usual. For points, the strongest plays are drays, dryas, lardy, lyard, odyls, sadly, sloyd, yards, yauds, and yauld — 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 arduously produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, days, lads, lady, lays, load, and lord. For points, the strongest plays are days, dory, dray, drys, duly, lady, odyl, oldy, yald, yard, yaud, and yods — 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 arduously turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, day, dry, lad, lay, old, and our. For points, the strongest plays are day, dry, and yod — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arduously. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, ay, do, or, oy, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 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 arduously 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.
arduously 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 arduously. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
arduously is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arduously unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is arduously, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from arduously 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 arduously produce 196 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.