arethusa needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 209 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arethusa is the highest-scoring word from arethusa, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 209 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in arethusa — and it is arethusa itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling arethusa turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hearts. For points, the strongest plays are arhats, earths, haters, hauter, and hearts — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arethusa. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, earth, hates, hears, heart, heats, and hurts. For points, the strongest plays are arhat, earth, haars, haets, hares, harts, haste, hater, hates, haute, hears, heart, heats, hurst, hurts, rathe, rheas, ruths, share, shart, shear, shura, shute, surah, tahrs, trash, and usher — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in arethusa produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, arts, ears, east, eats, eras, and hate. For points, the strongest plays are aahs, eath, eths, haar, haes, haet, hare, hart, hast, hate, hats, haut, hear, heat, hers, hest, hets, hues, hurt, huts, rash, rath, resh, rhea, rhus, rush, ruth, shat, shea, shut, tahr, thae, thru, thus, and tush — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling arethusa turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha, are, art, ash, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are aah, aha, ahs, ash, eth, hae, has, hat, her, hes, het, hue, hut, rah, sha, she, and the — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arethusa. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, eh, ha, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, sh, and uh — 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 arethusa and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
arethusa 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 arethusa carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for arethusa. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
arethusa is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arethusa unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is arethusa, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from arethusa 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 arethusa produce 209 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.