Hidden inside arresters sit arresters and rearrests, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 197 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arresters and rearrests tie for the highest Scrabble score from arresters at 9 points. The top 10 of 197 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in arresters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and arresters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arresters and rearrests, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arresters. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arrester, asserter, rearrest and 4 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in arresters produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrests and easters. For points, 15 words tie at 7 points, including arrests, easters and erasers.
Unscrambling arresters turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, easter and erases. For points, 36 words tie at 6 points, including arrest, easter and erases.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arresters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, erase and rarer. For points, 49 words tie at 5 points, including eases, erase and rarer.
Rearranging the letters in arresters produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears and ease. For points, 46 words tie at 4 points, including arts, ears and ease.
Unscrambling arresters turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ass. For points, 32 words tie at 3 points, including are, art and ass.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in arresters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in arresters 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.
arresters 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 arresters carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for arresters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
arresters is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arresters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arresters and rearrests, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arresters 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 arresters produce 197 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.