Hidden inside arty sit arty and tray, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arty and tray tie for the highest Scrabble score from arty at 7 points. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in arty: one comes from rearranging its letters, and arty itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tray. For points, the strongest plays are arty and tray — 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 arty turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, rat, and try. For points, the strongest plays are ray, rya, try, and yar — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arty. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — each worth 5 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 arty and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
arty 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 arty. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
arty is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arty unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arty and tray, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arty 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 arty produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.