paramour needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
paramour is the highest-scoring word from paramour, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in paramour — and it is paramour itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paramour. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rumor. For points, the strongest play is praam — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in paramour produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pour, prom, and ramp. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including prom, ramp and pram.
Unscrambling paramour turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arm, map and mop. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including map, mop and amp.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paramour. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, or, um, and up. For points, 10 words tie at 4 points, including am, um and up.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in paramour plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in paramour 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.
paramour 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 paramour. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
paramour is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing paramour unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is paramour, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from paramour 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 paramour produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.