arrestants needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 304 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arrestants is the highest-scoring word from arrestants, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 304 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in arrestants — and it is arrestants itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling arrestants produces exactly one nine-letter word: arrestant. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arrestants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with starters. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including starters, narrates and restarts.
Rearranging the letters in arrestants produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrests and starter. For points, 25 words tie at 7 points, including arrests, starter and arrases.
Unscrambling arrestants turns up 55 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, rarest and sanest. For points, 55 words tie at 6 points, including arrest, rarest and sanest.
There are 82 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arrestants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, earns and nests. For points, 82 words tie at 5 points, including areas, earns and nests.
Rearranging the letters in arrestants produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, area and arts. For points, 76 words tie at 4 points, including ants, area and arts.
Unscrambling arrestants turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are and art. For points, 44 words tie at 3 points, including ant, are and art.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arrestants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in arrestants plus one additional letter.
arrestants 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.
arrestants is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arrestants unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is arrestants, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from arrestants 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 arrestants produce 304 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 55 six-letter words, 82 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.