Hidden inside scarab sit barcas and scarab, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
barcas and scarab tie for the highest Scrabble score from scarab at 10 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in scarab: one comes from rearranging its letters, and scarab itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are barcas and scarab, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scarab. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crabs. For points, the strongest plays are barca, carbs, and crabs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in scarab produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bars, bras, cabs, cars, crab, and scar. For points, the strongest plays are cabs, carb, crab, and scab — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling scarab turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bar, bra, cab, and car. For points, the strongest play is cab — worth 7 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 scarab. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are ab and ba — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in scarab plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in scarab 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.
scarab 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 2-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 scarab. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
scarab is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scarab unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are barcas and scarab, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scarab 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 scarab produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.