Hidden inside aretes sit aretes, easter, eaters and 3 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 102 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aretes, easter, eaters and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from aretes at 6 points. The top 10 of 102 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 six-letter words hiding in aretes: five come from rearranging its letters, and aretes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter. For points, the strongest plays are aretes, easter, eaters, reseat, seater, and teaser — 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 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aretes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, rates, stare, steer, tears, tease, and trees. For points, the strongest plays are arete, aster, easer, eater, erase, ester, rates, reest, resat, reset, saree, setae, stare, steer, stere, tares, taser, tears, tease, teres, terse, and trees — 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 aretes produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, and rate. For points, the strongest plays are ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, rase, rate, rats, rees, rest, rete, rets, sate, sear, seat, seer, sera, sere, seta, star, tare, tars, tase, tear, teas, tees, tree, 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 aretes turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are are, ars, art, ate, ats, ear, eat, era, ere, ers, est, eta, ras, rat, ree, res, ret, sae, sat, sea, see, ser, set, tae, tar, tas, tea, tee, and tes — 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 aretes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, at, er, es, et, re, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
53 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in aretes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in aretes and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
aretes 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 aretes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for aretes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
aretes is one of six six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aretes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aretes, easter, eaters, reseat, seater, and teaser, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aretes 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 aretes produce 102 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.