Hidden inside tarsias sit aristas and tarsias, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 80 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aristas and tarsias tie for the highest Scrabble score from tarsias at 7 points. The top 10 of 80 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tarsias: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tarsias 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 aristas and tarsias, 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 tarsias turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stairs. For points, the strongest plays are arista, raitas, riatas, sistra, sitars, stairs, tarsia, and tiaras — 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 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarsias. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stair, stars, and stirs. For points, the strongest plays are airts, arias, arsis, assai, astir, atria, raias, raita, riata, saris, satis, sitar, stair, stars, stirs, stria, tarsi, tiara, 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 tarsias produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, rats, sirs, sits, star, and stir. For points, the strongest plays are airs, airt, aits, aria, arts, raia, rais, rats, rias, sari, sati, sirs, sits, sris, star, stir, 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 tarsias turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, art, ass, its, rat, sat, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are aas, air, ais, ait, ars, art, ass, ats, its, rai, ras, rat, ria, sat, sir, sis, sit, sri, tar, tas, and tis — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarsias. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ai, ar, as, at, is, it, si, ta, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tarsias plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tarsias 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.
tarsias 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 tarsias carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
tarsias is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tarsias unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aristas and tarsias, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tarsias 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 tarsias produce 80 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.