arrays needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arrays is the highest-scoring word from arrays, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in arrays — and it is arrays itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arrays. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are array and rayas, 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 arrays produces 3 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are raya, rays, and ryas, 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 arrays turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with say. For points, the strongest plays are ays, ray, rya, say, yar, and yas — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arrays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — 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 arrays 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.
arrays 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.
Dictionaries record six senses for arrays. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
arrays is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arrays unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is arrays, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from arrays 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 arrays produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.