Hidden inside lariats sit lariats and latrias, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 142 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lariats and latrias tie for the highest Scrabble score from lariats at 7 points. The top 10 of 142 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in lariats: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lariats itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lariats and latrias, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lariats turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altars, trails, and trials. For points, 16 words tie at 6 points, including altars, trails and trials.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lariats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altar, liars and stair. For points, 34 words tie at 5 points, including altar, liars and stair.
Rearranging the letters in lariats produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts and last. For points, 46 words tie at 4 points, including airs, arts and last.
Unscrambling lariats turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, art and its. For points, 31 words tie at 3 points, including air, art and its.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lariats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, 13 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and is.
8 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in lariats plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lariats 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.
lariats 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 lariats. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
lariats is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lariats unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lariats and latrias, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lariats 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 lariats produce 142 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.