Hidden inside arresting sit arresting and serrating, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 607 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arresting and serrating tie for the highest Scrabble score from arresting at 10 points. The top 10 of 607 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in arresting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and arresting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arresting. For points, the strongest plays are arresting and serrating — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arresting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angriest, earrings, restrain, starring, stranger, and trainers. For points, the strongest plays are angriest, angstier, astringe, earrings, ganister, gantries, grainers, granites, granters, ingrates, rangiest, rearings, regrants, restring, ringster, starring, stranger, stringer, and tasering — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in arresting produces 68 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angrier, earring, erasing, nastier, ratings, resting, and seating. For points, the strongest plays are aigrets, angrier, argents, earings, earring, easting, eatings, erasing, gainers, gaiters, garners, garnets, garrets, garters, gastrin, genista, grainer, granite, granter, graters, gratine, gratins, grister, ingates, ingesta, ingrate, rangers, rangier, ratings, reagins, rearing, regains, reginas, regrant, resting, ringers, seagirt, searing, seating, seringa, stagier, staring, stinger, strange, tagines, tangier, tarring, tearing, teasing, and triages — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling arresting turns up 113 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angers, arrest, easing, eating, giants, and grants. For points, the strongest plays are ageist, agents, aigret, angers, argent, earing, easing, eating, engirt, erring, gainer, gainst, gaiter, garner, garnet, garret, garter, gaster, gaters, giants, gnarrs, grains, grants, grater, grates, gratin, gratis, greats, ingate, ingest, ragers, ranger, ranges, raring, rasing, rating, reagin, regain, regina, reigns, renigs, rerigs, resign, retags, ringer, sagier, sanger, sating, sering, signer, signet, singer, stager, stinge, strang, string, tagine, targes, taring, tasing, tigers, tinges, and triage — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 149 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arresting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, earns, gains, gates, giant, and grant. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agent, agers, agist, anger, angst, gains, gaits, garni, gater, gates, geans, gears, gents, getas, giant, girns, girts, gites, gnarr, gnars, gnats, grain, grans, grant, grate, great, grins, grist, grits, rager, rages, ragis, range, rangs, regna, reign, renig, rerig, retag, rings, sager, sarge, segni, sengi, signa, singe, stage, staig, stang, sting, tangs, targe, terga, tiger, tinge, tings, tragi, and trigs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in arresting produces 145 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, ants, arts, earn, ears, and east. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, agin, areg, egis, engs, ergs, gaen, gaes, gain, gait, gane, gars, gast, gate, gats, gean, gear, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, gien, gies, gins, girn, girt, gist, gite, gits, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, grin, grit, nags, negs, rage, ragi, rags, rang, regs, rigs, ring, sage, sang, sign, sing, snag, stag, tags, tang, tegs, ting, and trig — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling arresting turns up 84 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, erg, gae, gan, gar, gas, gat, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, grr, nag, neg, rag, reg, rig, sag, seg, sig, tag, and teg — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arresting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
8 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in arresting plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in arresting and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
arresting 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for arresting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
arresting is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arresting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arresting and serrating, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arresting 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 arresting produce 607 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 24 eight-letter words, 68 seven-letter words, 113 six-letter words, 149 five-letter words, 145 four-letter words, 84 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.