Hidden inside arsis sit arsis and saris, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arsis and saris tie for the highest Scrabble score from arsis at 5 points. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in arsis: one comes from rearranging its letters, and arsis itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arsis and saris, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in arsis and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
arsis 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 arsis carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
arsis is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arsis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arsis and saris, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arsis 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 arsis produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.