Hidden inside tarsals sit astrals and tarsals, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
astrals and tarsals tie for the highest Scrabble score from tarsals at 7 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tarsals: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tarsals itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are astrals and tarsals, 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 tarsals turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altars. For points, the strongest plays are altars, astral, ratals, salats, 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 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarsals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altar, lasts, salsa, salts, and stars. For points, the strongest plays are altar, artal, atlas, lasts, ratal, salat, salsa, salts, slats, stars, talar, talas, trass, and tsars — 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 tarsals produces 18 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, lass, last, lats, rats, sals, salt, slat, star, tala, tars, tass, 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 tarsals turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, ass, rat, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are aal, aas, ala, als, alt, ars, art, ass, 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 tarsals. 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 tarsals 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.
tarsals 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 tarsals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
tarsals is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tarsals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are astrals and tarsals, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tarsals 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 tarsals produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.