paraphrase needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 180 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
paraphrase is the highest-scoring word from paraphrase, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 180 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in paraphrase — and it is paraphrase itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in paraphrase produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with appears, perhaps, and sharper. For points, the strongest plays are paraphs and perhaps — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling paraphrase turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with appear, papers, phrase, and sparer. For points, the strongest play is paraph — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paraphrase. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, hears, paper, phase, shape, share, and sharp. For points, the strongest plays are ephas, harps, heaps, pasha, phase, raphe, shape, and sharp — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in paraphrase produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, area, ears, eras, hear, hers, and peas. For points, the strongest plays are epha, haps, harp, hasp, heap, heps, pash, and pehs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling paraphrase turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha, ape, are, ash, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hep, pah, and peh — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paraphrase. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, eh, ha, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in paraphrase plus one additional letter.
paraphrase 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 1-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 paraphrase. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
paraphrase is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing paraphrase unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is paraphrase, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from paraphrase 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 paraphrase produce 180 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.