Hidden inside arrests sit arrests, rasters, and starers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arrests, rasters, and starers tie for the highest Scrabble score from arrests at 7 points. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in arrests: two come from rearranging its letters, and arrests itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrests. For points, the strongest plays are arrests, rasters, and starers — 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 arrests turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, rarest, and stares. For points, the strongest plays are arrest, assert, asters, rarest, rasers, raster, raters, starer, stares, tarres, tasers, 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 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arrests. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rates, rests, seats, stare, stars, and tears. For points, the strongest plays are arses, asset, aster, easts, rares, raser, rases, rater, rates, rears, resat, rests, sates, sears, seats, stare, stars, tares, tarre, taser, tases, tasse, tears, terra, trass, tress, and tsars — 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 arrests produces 36 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, ests, etas, rare, rase, rate, rats, rear, rest, rets, sate, sear, seas, seat, sera, sers, seta, sets, star, tare, tars, tase, tass, 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 arrests turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ass, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are are, ars, art, ass, ate, ats, ear, eat, era, err, ers, ess, 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 arrests. 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 arrests and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
arrests 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 arrests carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for arrests. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
arrests is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arrests unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arrests, rasters, and starers, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arrests 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 arrests produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.