Hidden inside aro sit aro, oar, and ora, three-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 3 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 5 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aro, oar, and ora tie for the highest Scrabble score from aro at 3 points. The top 5 of 5 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 three-letter words hiding in aro: two come from rearranging its letters, and aro itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aro, oar, and ora, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
34 four-letter words can be made using all the letters in aro plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in aro and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
aro is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
aro is one of three three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aro unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aro, oar, and ora, worth 3 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aro 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 aro produce 5 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 three-letter words and 2 two-letter words.