Hidden inside arrest sit arrest, rarest, raster and 4 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arrest, rarest, raster and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from arrest at 6 points. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 six-letter words hiding in arrest: six come from rearranging its letters, and arrest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest and rarest. For points, the strongest plays are arrest, rarest, raster, raters, starer, tarres, and terras — 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arrest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rates, stare, and tears. For points, the strongest plays are aster, rares, raser, rater, rates, rears, resat, stare, tares, tarre, taser, tears, and terra — 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 arrest produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, eats, eras, rare, and rate. For points, the strongest plays are ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, east, eats, eras, errs, erst, etas, rare, rase, rate, rats, rear, rest, rets, sate, sear, seat, sera, seta, star, tare, tars, tase, tear, teas, tres, 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 arrest turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are are, ars, art, ate, ats, ear, eat, era, err, ers, est, eta, ras, rat, res, ret, sae, sat, sea, ser, set, tae, tar, tas, tea, and tes — 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 arrest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, at, er, es, et, re, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
40 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in arrest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in arrest 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.
arrest 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 arrest carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for arrest. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
arrest is one of seven six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arrest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arrest, rarest, raster, raters, starer, tarres, and terras, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arrest 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 arrest produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.