Hidden inside arises sit arises, raises, and serais, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arises, raises, and serais tie for the highest Scrabble score from arises at 6 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in arises: two come from rearranging its letters, and arises itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raises. For points, the strongest plays are arises, raises, and serais — 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raise and rises. For points, the strongest plays are arise, arses, arsis, raise, rases, reais, rises, saris, sears, serai, and sires — 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 arises produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ears, eras, rise, seas, and sirs. For points, the strongest plays are airs, ares, arie, arse, ears, eras, ires, rais, rase, reis, rias, rise, sari, sear, seas, seis, sera, sers, sire, sirs, and sris — 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 arises turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ass, ear, era, sea, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are air, ais, are, ars, ass, ear, era, ers, ess, ire, rai, ras, rei, res, ria, sae, sea, sei, ser, sir, sis, and sri — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, ar, as, er, es, is, re, and si — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
25 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in arises plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in arises and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
arises 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 arises carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
arises is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arises, raises, and serais, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arises 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 arises produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.