Hidden inside raist sit airts, astir, sitar and 3 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
RAIST isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to AIRTS, ASTIR, SITAR, STAIR, STRIA and 1 more.
airts, astir, sitar and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from raist at 5 points. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in raist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stair. For points, the strongest plays are airts, astir, sitar, stair, stria, and tarsi — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in raist produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, rats, star, and stir. For points, the strongest plays are airs, airt, aits, arts, rais, rats, rias, sari, sati, star, stir, tars, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling raist turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, art, its, rat, sat, sir, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are air, ais, ait, ars, art, ats, its, rai, ras, rat, ria, sat, sir, sit, sri, tar, tas, and tis — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in raist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ai, ar, as, at, is, it, si, ta, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
42 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in raist plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in raist and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are airts, astir, sitar, stair, stria, and tarsi, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from raist 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 raist produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.