Hidden inside rarifies sit friaries and rarifies, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 122 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
friaries and rarifies tie for the highest Scrabble score from rarifies at 11 points. The top 10 of 122 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in rarifies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rarifies 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 friaries and rarifies, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rarifies produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fairies. For points, the strongest plays are fairier and fairies — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling rarifies turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fairer. For points, the strongest plays are fairer, farers, ferias, firers, fraise, friars, and friers — 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 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rarifies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fears, fires, fries, raise, and safer. For points, the strongest plays are afire, fairs, farer, fares, fears, feria, fiars, firer, fires, friar, frier, fries, frise, reifs, rifer, safer, and serif — 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 rarifies produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ears, eras, fair, fear, fire, and rare. For points, the strongest plays are arfs, fair, fare, fear, fiar, fire, firs, frae, refs, reif, rife, rifs, safe, seif, and serf — 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 rarifies turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, ear, era, far, sea, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are arf, efs, far, fas, fer, fes, fie, fir, ifs, ref, and rif — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rarifies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, if, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — each worth 5 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 rarifies 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.
rarifies 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in rarifies carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for rarifies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
rarifies is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rarifies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are friaries and rarifies, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rarifies 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 rarifies produce 122 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.