Hidden inside arrives sit arrives and variers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 104 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arrives and variers tie for the highest Scrabble score from arrives at 10 points. The top 10 of 104 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in arrives: one comes from rearranging its letters, and arrives itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrives. For points, the strongest plays are arrives and variers — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling arrives turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrive and rivers. For points, the strongest plays are aivers, arrive, ravers, ravier, rivers, varier, and varies — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arrives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raise and river. For points, the strongest plays are aiver, avers, raver, raves, river, rives, saver, siver, vairs, viers, and vires — 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 arrives produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ears, eras, rare, rise, save, and vase. For points, the strongest plays are aver, aves, rave, revs, rive, save, vair, vars, vase, vera, vier, vies, visa, and vise — 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 arrives turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ear, era, sea, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are ave, rev, sev, var, vas, via, vie, and vis — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arrives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, ar, as, er, es, is, re, and si — 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 arrives 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.
arrives 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for arrives. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
arrives is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arrives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arrives and variers, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arrives 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 arrives produce 104 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.