Hidden inside parents sit arpents, entraps, parents and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 256 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble PRESANT, REPASTN or PERSANT and you get the same 7 letters as PARENTS: so the words from PARENTS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
arpents, entraps, parents and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from parents at 9 points. The top 10 of 256 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in parents: four come from rearranging its letters, and parents itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parents. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including parents, arpents and entraps.
Unscrambling parents turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parent. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including parent, arpens and arpent.
There are 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, pants and parts. For points, 44 words tie at 7 points, including pants, parts and spare.
Rearranging the letters in parents produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, apes and arts. For points, 44 words tie at 6 points, including apes, naps and pans.
Unscrambling parents turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape and are. For points, 19 words tie at 5 points, including ape, nap and pan.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
19 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in parents plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in parents and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
parents 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 three senses for parents. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
parents is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parents unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arpents, entraps, parents, pastern, and trepans, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parents 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 parents produce 256 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.