parabolas needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 167 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parabolas is the highest-scoring word from parabolas, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 167 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in parabolas — and it is parabolas itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parabolas. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are palabras and parabola, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in parabolas produces 2 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 palabra, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling parabolas turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with labors. For points, the strongest plays are aboral, borals, labara, labors, parols, polars, and sporal — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parabolas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with labor and solar. For points, the strongest play is probs — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in parabolas produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, bars, bras, labs, laps, oral, and pals. For points, the strongest plays are baps, bops, and prob — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling parabolas turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bar, bra, lab, lap, pal, pro, and rap. For points, the strongest plays are bap and bop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parabolas. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, bo, op, pa, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in parabolas and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
parabolas 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 one sense for parabolas. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
parabolas is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parabolas unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is parabolas, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from parabolas 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 parabolas produce 167 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.