Hidden inside arbalest sit arbalest and ratables, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 305 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arbalest and ratables tie for the highest Scrabble score from arbalest at 10 points. The top 10 of 305 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in arbalest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and arbalest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arbalest and ratables, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in arbalest produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abaters, ablates, abreast, arables, blaster, labrets, ratable, and stabler, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling arbalest turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, alerts, altars, alters, barest, breast, and tables. For points, the strongest plays are abaser, abater, abates, ablate, ablest, arable, balers, barest, basalt, baster, blares, blears, bleats, breast, labret, rabats, sabler, stable, tabers, tablas, and tables — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 86 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arbalest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, alert, altar, alter, areas, bears, and beast. For points, the strongest plays are abase, abate, abets, abler, ables, albas, baals, balas, baler, bales, balsa, bares, basal, baser, baste, bates, beals, bears, beast, beats, belts, betas, blare, blase, blast, blate, blats, blear, bleat, blest, blets, braes, brats, labra, rabat, sabal, saber, sable, sabra, sabre, taber, tabes, tabla, and table — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in arbalest produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, area, arts, bare, bars, base, and bats. For points, the strongest plays are abas, abet, able, alba, albs, arbs, baal, baas, baes, bale, bals, bare, bars, base, bast, bate, bats, beal, bear, beat, bels, belt, best, beta, bets, blae, blat, blet, brae, bras, brat, labs, rebs, sabe, slab, stab, and tabs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling arbalest turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, bar, bat, bet, and bra. For points, the strongest plays are aba, abs, alb, arb, baa, bae, bal, bar, bas, bat, bel, bes, bet, bra, lab, reb, sab, and tab — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arbalest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 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 arbalest 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.
arbalest 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for arbalest. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
arbalest is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arbalest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arbalest and ratables, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arbalest 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 arbalest produce 305 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 86 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.