Unscramble ARRESTS and you have 143 words, ARRESTS itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. ARRESTS has 2 anagrams here, RASTERS and STARERS, scoring 7 like ARRESTS itself. The best shorter words score 6: 18 of them, ARREST, ASSERT and RASTER included. The 7 letters split into 2 vowels and 5 consonants. Play all 7 tiles of ARRESTS at once for 57 in Scrabble (7 + 50) or 42 in Words With Friends (7 + 35).
Looking for srstear, rstares, rrssate, stresar, arresst, rassert, tearsrs, resstar, restsar or tarress? They use the same letters as ARRESTS, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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By length, the words from ARRESTS split into 3 with 7 letters, 18 with 6, 39 with 5, 41 with 4, 30 with 3 and 12 with 2.
All 39 of the 5-letter words from ARRESTS score 5 points. RATES, STARS and ASSET are the ones most people know.
The 4-letter words you get when you unscramble ARRESTS come to 41, each scoring 4 points. RATE, EAST and STAR are the familiar ones.
These 6 words have the length of ARRESTS, with one letter different:
More 7-letter words: starting with AR · ending in TS · all 7-letter words
ARRESTS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept ARRESTS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARRESTS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 143) | 116 | 143 | 105 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ARRETS, REASTS, SERRAS, STARRS, STEARS, STRAES, ARETS, ARRET, EARST, RASSE, REAST, SASER and 15 more, 27 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: TASERS, RESAT, TASER, TASES, ESTS, TASE, TRES, ATS, EST, TES and TE, 11 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of ARRESTS and one more.