Hidden inside yarlist is one standout: trysail, a seven-letter play worth 10 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 141 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble RYTAILS, ARISTLY or IRALYST and you get the same 7 letters as YARLIST: so the words from YARLIST listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
YARLIST isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to TRYSAIL (noun), a type of sail, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
trysail is the highest-scoring word from yarlist, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 141 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling yarlist produces exactly one seven-letter word: trysail. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling yarlist turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trails and trials. For points, the strongest plays are artily, lyrist, riyals, and stylar — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yarlist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with liars, salty, stair, tails, trail, trays, and trial. For points, the strongest plays are artsy, aryls, lairy, laity, lyart, riyal, salty, satyr, silty, slaty, stray, styli, and trays — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in yarlist produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, last, lays, liar, list, and rats. For points, the strongest plays are airy, arty, aryl, lays, rays, ryas, slay, stay, syli, and tray — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling yarlist turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, art, its, lay, lit, rat, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are ays, lay, ray, rya, say, sly, sty, try, yar, and yas — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yarlist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, ay, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in yarlist plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in yarlist 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is trysail, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from yarlist 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 yarlist produce 141 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.