aruspex needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aruspex is the highest-scoring word from aruspex, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in aruspex — and it is aruspex itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling aruspex turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are auspex and praxes, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aruspex. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pause, purse, spare, and super. For points, the strongest play is paxes — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in aruspex produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears, eras, peas, pure, raps, and reps. For points, the strongest plays are apex and prex — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling aruspex turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ear, era, pea, per, and rap. For points, the strongest play is pax — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aruspex. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, ex, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, and xu — each worth 9 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 aruspex and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
aruspex 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
aruspex is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aruspex unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is aruspex, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from aruspex 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 aruspex produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.