Hidden inside rarebits sit arbiters and rarebits, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 283 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arbiters and rarebits tie for the highest Scrabble score from rarebits at 10 points. The top 10 of 283 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in rarebits: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rarebits itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arbiters and rarebits, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in rarebits produces 12 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arbiter, baiters, barites and 6 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rarebits turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, barest and breast. For points, 21 words tie at 8 points, including barest, breast and rabies.
There are 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rarebits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with baits, barer and bears. For points, 33 words tie at 7 points, including baits, barer and bears.
Rearranging the letters in rarebits produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts and bait. For points, 35 words tie at 6 points, including bait, bare and bars.
Unscrambling rarebits turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including bar, bat and bet.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rarebits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
8 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in rarebits plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rarebits and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
rarebits 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 rarebits. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
rarebits is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rarebits unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arbiters and rarebits, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rarebits 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 rarebits produce 283 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.