Hidden inside arrive sit arrive, ravier, and varier, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arrive, ravier, and varier tie for the highest Scrabble score from arrive at 9 points. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in arrive: two come from rearranging its letters, and arrive itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrive. For points, the strongest plays are arrive, ravier, and varier — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arrive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with river. For points, the strongest plays are aiver, raver, and river — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in arrive produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rare. For points, the strongest plays are aver, rave, rive, vair, vera, and vier — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling arrive turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ave, rev, var, via, and vie — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arrive. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ae, ai, ar, er, and re, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in arrive 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.
arrive 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 two senses for arrive. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
arrive is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arrive unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arrive, ravier, and varier, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arrive 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 arrive produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.