arethusas needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 286 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arethusas is the highest-scoring word from arethusas, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 286 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in arethusas — and it is arethusas itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling arethusas produces exactly one eight-letter word: arethusa. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in arethusas produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trashes. For points, the strongest plays are rashest and trashes — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling arethusas turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assure, harass, hearts, rashes, rushes, shares, and stares. For points, the strongest plays are arhats, asshat, earths, harass, hastes, haters, hauter, hearts, hursts, hussar, rashes, rhesus, rhuses, rushes, shares, sharts, shasta, shears, shuras, shutes, surahs, tushes, tussah, tusseh, and ushers — 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 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arethusas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, ashes, earth, hates, hears, heart, and heats. For points, the strongest plays are arhat, ashes, earth, haars, haets, hares, harts, haste, hater, hates, haute, hears, heart, heats, hests, hurst, hurts, rathe, rheas, ruths, share, shart, shear, sheas, shura, shute, shuts, stash, 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 arethusas produces 91 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, sash, sesh, shat, shea, shes, 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 arethusas turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha, are, art, ash, ass, and ate. 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 arethusas. 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in arethusas plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in arethusas 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.
arethusas 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 arethusas carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for arethusas. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
arethusas is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arethusas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is arethusas, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from arethusas 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 arethusas produce 286 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 91 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.