Hidden inside arsenates sit arsenates and serenatas, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 310 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arsenates and serenatas tie for the highest Scrabble score from arsenates at 9 points. The top 10 of 310 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in arsenates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and arsenates 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 arsenates and serenatas, 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 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arsenates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arsenate, assenter, earnests, santeras, sarsenet, serenata, and steranes, 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 arsenates produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern, easters, nearest, and resents. For points, the strongest plays are aerates, earnest, eastern, easters, entases, nearest, nesters, renests, reseats, resents, santera, sarsnet, sateens, searest, seaters, senates, sensate, sterane, teasers, and tessera — 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 arsenates turns up 54 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter, enters, erases, neater, resent, sanest, and stares. For points, the strongest plays are aerate, anears, ansate, antres, arenas, arenes, aretes, assent, assert, astern, asters, easers, easter, eaters, enates, entera, enters, erases, esters, neater, nester, ranees, ratans, reatas, reests, renest, rentes, reseat, resent, resets, sanest, sansar, sarans, sarees, sarsen, sateen, seater, senate, serest, snares, sneers, stanes, stares, steers, steres, sterna, sterns, tasers, teaser, teases, tenser, tenses, ternes, and treens — 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 91 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arsenates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, earns, eases, eaten, enter, erase, and nests. For points, the strongest plays are anear, ansae, antae, antas, antes, antra, antre, areae, areas, arena, arene, arete, arses, asset, aster, earns, easer, eases, easts, eaten, eater, enate, enter, erase, ernes, erses, esnes, ester, etnas, nares, nates, nears, neats, nerts, nests, ranee, rants, rases, ratan, rates, reata, reest, rente, rents, resat, reses, reset, rests, saner, sanes, saran, saree, sates, sears, seats, seers, senes, sensa, sense, sente, sents, seres, setae, snare, sneer, stane, stans, stare, stars, steer, stere, stern, tares, tarns, taser, tases, tasse, tears, tease, teens, tense, teres, terne, terns, terse, trans, trass, treen, trees, 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 arsenates produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, area, arts, earn, ears, ease, and east. For points, the strongest plays are anas, anes, ansa, anta, ante, ants, area, ares, arse, arts, asea, ates, earn, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, erne, erns, erst, eses, esne, esse, ests, etas, etna, naes, nare, near, neat, ness, nest, nets, rant, rase, rate, rats, rees, rent, rest, rete, rets, sane, sans, sate, sear, seas, seat, seen, seer, sees, sene, sent, sera, sere, sers, seta, sets, stan, star, tans, tare, tarn, tars, tase, tass, tear, teas, teen, tees, tens, tern, 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 arsenates turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, art, ass, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are aas, ana, ane, ant, are, ars, art, ass, ate, ats, ear, eat, ens, era, ere, ern, ers, ess, est, eta, nae, nee, net, ran, ras, rat, ree, res, ret, sae, san, sat, sea, see, sen, ser, set, tae, tan, tar, tas, tea, tee, ten, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arsenates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, an, ar, as, at, en, er, es, et, na, ne, 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 arsenates 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.
arsenates 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 arsenates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
arsenates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arsenates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arsenates and serenatas, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arsenates 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 arsenates produce 310 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 54 six-letter words, 91 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.