Hidden inside rivalar is one standout: arrival, a seven-letter play worth 10 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
RIVALAR isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ARRIVAL (noun), the act of arriving, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
arrival is the highest-scoring word from rivalar, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling rivalar produces exactly one seven-letter word: arrival. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rivalar. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alvar, arval, avail and 4 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in rivalar produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lava and liar. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including lava, vail and vair.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rivalar. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aa, ai, al and 3 more, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in rivalar plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rivalar 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is arrival, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from rivalar 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 rivalar produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 8 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.