Hidden inside rarebit sit arbiter and rarebit, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arbiter and rarebit tie for the highest Scrabble score from rarebit at 9 points. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in rarebit: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rarebit 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 arbiter and rarebit, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rarebit turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are baiter, barite, barret and 3 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rarebit. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barer and tribe. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including barer, tribe and barre.
Rearranging the letters in rarebit produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bait, bare and bear. For points, 16 words tie at 6 points, including bait, bare and bear.
Unscrambling rarebit turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including bar, bat and bet.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rarebit. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, be, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in rarebit plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rarebit 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.
rarebit 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 rarebit. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
rarebit is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rarebit unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arbiter and rarebit, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rarebit 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 rarebit produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.