ARSIS is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. ARSIS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ARSIS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 25 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ARSIS is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ARSIS
No single letter turns ARSIS into another word.
How ARSIS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ARSIS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 25,819.
What stands out about ARSIS
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ARSIS mean in Scrabble?
noun
literarymusic
The stressed or accented part of a metrical foot in verse, or the corresponding raised beat in music.
Scholars of classical poetry use arsis to mark the beat of a line that carries the stress, contrasting it with the unstressed part called the thesis. In music theory the same word can describe the lighter, upward part of a conductor's beat, which is the reverse of how it is used in some older grammars, so writers often explain which sense of arsis they intend. The term survives mainly in academic discussion of Greek and Latin metre and in specialist writing on rhythm. Students meeting arsis for the first time usually learn it alongside its counterpart to scan a line of verse correctly.
How ARSIS is used
Specialist term from prosody and music theory; encountered in academic writing rather than everyday speech.
- The professor marked the arsis of each foot with a small stroke.
- In this line the arsis falls on the second syllable.
- Conductors sometimes call the upward beat the arsis.
- Ancient grammarians disagreed about where the arsis should fall.
- Scanning the poem meant finding the arsis in every foot.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ARSIS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ARSIS
The 5 tiles of ARSIS in a different order — 2 found.
Words ending in ARSIS
4 words end in ARSIS. Useful as a back hook: play ARSIS onto a word already on the board.
Words with ARSIS inside
1 words contain ARSIS in the middle. Words that start with ARSIS are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ARSIS
Common questions about ARSIS
- Is ARSIS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ARSIS, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ARSIS worth?
- ARSIS is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ARSIS mean?
- The stressed or accented part of a metrical foot in verse, or the corresponding raised beat in music.
- What letters can be added to ARSIS?
- No single letter can be added to ARSIS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ARSIS:
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