What ARRESTS Means
ARRESTS is a form of ARREST, which means:
- verb: take into custody“the police nabbed the suspected criminals”
- verb: hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of“Arrest the downward trend”
- noun: the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)“the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar”
- noun: the state of inactivity following an interruption“the negotiations were in arrest”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
ARRESTS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 R1 R1 E1 S1 T1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 57 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of ARRESTS (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In ARRESTS
135 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
6 letter words (18)
5 letter words (37)
4 letter words (39)
3 letter words (29)
2 letter words (12)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.