Hidden inside arista sit arista, raitas, riatas and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arista, raitas, riatas and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from arista at 6 points. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in arista: four come from rearranging its letters, and arista itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arista, raitas, riatas, tarsia, and tiaras, 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arista. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stair. For points, the strongest plays are airts, arias, astir, atria, raias, raita, riata, sitar, stair, stria, tarsi, and tiara — 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 arista produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, rats, star, and stir. For points, the strongest plays are airs, airt, aits, aria, arts, raia, rais, rats, rias, sari, sati, star, stir, tars, and tsar — 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 arista turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, art, its, rat, sat, sir, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are aas, air, ais, ait, ars, art, ats, its, rai, ras, rat, ria, sat, sir, sit, sri, tar, tas, and tis — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arista. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ai, ar, as, at, is, it, si, ta, and ti — each worth 2 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 arista 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.
arista 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 arista carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for arista. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
arista is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arista unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arista, raitas, riatas, tarsia, and tiaras, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arista 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 arista produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.