arrivistes needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 339 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arrivistes is the highest-scoring word from arrivistes, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 339 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in arrivistes — and it is arrivistes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling arrivistes turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arriviste and varsities, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arrivistes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are revisits, rivieras, starvers and 2 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in arrivistes produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrests, arrives, and starves. For points, 15 words tie at 10 points, including arrives, starves and raviest.
Unscrambling arrivistes turns up 63 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, arrive and raises. For points, 24 words tie at 9 points, including arrive, rivers and starve.
There are 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arrivistes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raise, rates and rests. For points, 28 words tie at 8 points, including river, saves and vases.
Rearranging the letters in arrivistes produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts and ears. For points, 22 words tie at 7 points, including save, vase and vest.
Unscrambling arrivistes turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including vet, ave and rev.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arrivistes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and is.
arrivistes 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 one sense for arrivistes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
arrivistes is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arrivistes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is arrivistes, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from arrivistes 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 arrivistes produce 339 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 63 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.