arterials needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 395 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arterials is the highest-scoring word from arterials, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 395 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in arterials — and it is arterials itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arterials. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trailers. For points, the strongest plays are arterial, retrials, and trailers — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in arterials produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saltier and trailer. For points, 20 words tie at 7 points, including saltier, trailer and aerials.
Unscrambling arterials turns up 69 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, altars and alters. For points, 69 words tie at 6 points, including alerts, altars and alters.
There are 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arterials. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert and altar. For points, 109 words tie at 5 points, including aisle, alert and altar.
Rearranging the letters in arterials produces 112 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, area and arts. For points, 112 words tie at 4 points, including airs, area and arts.
Unscrambling arterials turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, 61 words tie at 3 points, including air, are and art.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arterials. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, 20 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and is.
Swap a single tile in arterials 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.
arterials 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 arterials. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
arterials is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arterials unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is arterials, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from arterials 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 arterials produce 395 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 69 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 112 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.