Hidden inside arrester sit arrester and rearrest, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arrester and rearrest tie for the highest Scrabble score from arrester at 8 points. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in arrester: one comes from rearranging its letters, and arrester itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arrester and rearrest, 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 arrester produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rearers, retears, serrate, and tearers, 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 arrester turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, easter, and rarest. For points, the strongest plays are aretes, arrest, easter, eaters, eraser, rarest, raster, raters, rearer, reseat, rester, retear, searer, seater, starer, tarres, tearer, teaser, terrae, terras, and terser — 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 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arrester. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, rarer, rates, stare, steer, tears, and tease. For points, the strongest plays are arete, aster, easer, eater, erase, ester, rarer, rares, raser, rater, rates, rears, reest, resat, reset, saree, serer, setae, stare, steer, stere, tares, tarre, taser, tears, tease, teres, terra, terse, and trees — 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 arrester produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, and rare. For points, the strongest plays are ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, errs, erst, etas, rare, rase, rate, rats, rear, rees, rest, rete, rets, sate, sear, seat, seer, sera, sere, seta, star, tare, tars, tase, tear, teas, tees, tree, 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 arrester turns up 30 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, ere, err, ers, est, eta, ras, rat, ree, res, ret, sae, sat, sea, see, ser, set, tae, tar, tas, tea, tee, 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 arrester. 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.
Swap a single tile in arrester and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
arrester 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 arrester carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for arrester. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
arrester is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arrester unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arrester and rearrest, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arrester 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 arrester produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.