Hidden inside parables sit parables, parsable, prebasal and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 225 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parables, parsable, prebasal and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from parables at 12 points. The top 10 of 225 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in parables: three come from rearranging its letters, and parables itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are parables, parsable, prebasal, and sparable, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in parables produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is parable, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling parables turns up 13 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abaser, arable, arepas and 10 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parables. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, areas and bears. For points, the strongest play is plebs — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in parables produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, apes and area. For points, the strongest plays are baps and pleb — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling parables turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and bar. For points, the strongest play is bap — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parables. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and be. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including be, ab and ba.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in parables plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in parables and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
parables 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for parables. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
parables is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parables unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are parables, parsable, prebasal, and sparable, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parables 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 parables produce 225 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.