Hidden inside tarsal sit altars, astral, ratals and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
altars, astral, ratals and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from tarsal at 6 points. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in tarsal: four come from rearranging its letters, and tarsal itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altars. For points, the strongest plays are altars, astral, ratals, talars, and tarsal — 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarsal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altar. For points, the strongest plays are altar, artal, atlas, ratal, salat, talar, and talas — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tarsal produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, last, rats, salt, and star. For points, the strongest plays are aals, alar, alas, alts, arts, lars, last, lats, rats, salt, slat, star, tala, tars, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tarsal turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, rat, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are aal, aas, ala, als, alt, ars, art, ats, lar, las, lat, ras, rat, sal, sat, tar, and tas — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarsal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are aa, al, ar, as, at, la, and ta — 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 tarsal 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.
tarsal 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 tarsal. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
tarsal is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tarsal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are altars, astral, ratals, talars, and tarsal, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tarsal 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 tarsal produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.