Hidden inside tarsier sit artsier, tarries, and tarsier, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 162 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
artsier, tarries, and tarsier tie for the highest Scrabble score from tarsier at 7 points. The top 10 of 162 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in tarsier: two come from rearranging its letters, and tarsier 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 artsier, tarries, and tarsier, 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 tarsier turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest and rarest. For points, the strongest plays are airers, airest, arrest, artier, artsie, irater, raiser, rarest, raster, raters, ristra, satire, sierra, starer, striae, tarres, terais, terras, and triers — 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 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarsier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raise, rates, stair, stare, tears, tires, and tries. For points, the strongest plays are airer, airts, arise, arris, aster, astir, irate, raise, rares, raser, rater, rates, reais, rears, resat, resit, retia, riser, rites, serai, sirra, sitar, stair, stare, stria, tares, tarre, tarsi, taser, tears, terai, terra, tiers, tires, trier, and tries — 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 tarsier produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, ears, east, eats, eras, and rare. For points, the strongest plays are airs, airt, aits, ares, arie, arse, arts, ates, ears, east, eats, eras, errs, erst, etas, ires, rais, rare, rase, rate, rats, rear, reis, rest, rets, rias, rise, rite, sari, sate, sati, sear, seat, sera, seta, sire, site, star, stir, tare, tars, tase, tear, teas, tier, ties, tire, tres, 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 tarsier turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are air, ais, ait, are, ars, art, ate, ats, ear, eat, era, err, ers, est, eta, ire, its, rai, ras, rat, rei, res, ret, ria, sae, sat, sea, sei, ser, set, sir, sit, sri, tae, tar, tas, tea, tes, tie, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarsier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, ar, as, at, er, es, et, is, it, re, si, ta, te, 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.
21 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tarsier plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tarsier 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.
tarsier 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 tarsier carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for tarsier. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
tarsier is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tarsier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are artsier, tarries, and tarsier, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tarsier 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 tarsier produce 162 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.