Hidden inside ariels sit ariels, resail, sailer and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 119 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ariels, resail, sailer and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ariels at 6 points. The top 10 of 119 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in ariels: four come from rearranging its letters, and ariels itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with serial. For points, the strongest plays are ariels, resail, sailer, serail, and serial — 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 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ariels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, laser, liars, and raise. For points, the strongest plays are aisle, ariel, arils, arise, arles, earls, lairs, lares, laris, laser, lears, liars, liers, liras, rails, raise, rales, reais, reals, rials, riels, riles, serai, seral, and slier — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ariels produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ears, eras, liar, lies, real, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are ails, airs, ales, ares, arie, aril, arse, earl, ears, eras, ilea, ires, isle, lair, lari, lars, lase, lear, leas, leis, liar, lias, lier, lies, lira, lire, rail, rais, rale, rase, real, reis, rial, rias, riel, rile, rise, sail, sale, sari, seal, sear, sera, sial, and sire — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ariels turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ear, era, lie, sea, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are ail, air, ais, ale, als, are, ars, ear, els, era, ers, ire, lar, las, lea, lei, lie, lis, rai, ras, rei, res, ria, sae, sal, sea, sei, sel, ser, sir, and sri — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ariels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, ar, as, el, er, es, is, la, li, re, and si — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
38 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in ariels plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ariels 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.
ariels 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
ariels is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ariels unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ariels, resail, sailer, serail, and serial, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ariels 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 ariels produce 119 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.