tarsiers needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 224 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tarsiers is the highest-scoring word from tarsiers, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 224 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in tarsiers — and it is tarsiers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tarsiers produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrests. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including arrests, arrises and artsier.
Unscrambling tarsiers turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, raises and rarest. For points, 37 words tie at 6 points, including arrest, raises and rarest.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarsiers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raise, rates and rests. For points, 58 words tie at 5 points, including raise, rates and rests.
Rearranging the letters in tarsiers produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts and ears. For points, 58 words tie at 4 points, including airs, arts and ears.
Unscrambling tarsiers turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, 43 words tie at 3 points, including air, are and art.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tarsiers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and is.
9 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in tarsiers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tarsiers and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
tarsiers 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 tarsiers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for tarsiers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
tarsiers is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tarsiers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tarsiers, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tarsiers 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 tarsiers produce 224 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 12 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.