parboils 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, 264 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parboils is the highest-scoring word from parboils, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 264 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in parboils — and it is parboils itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in parboils 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 words are bipolar and parboil, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling parboils turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with labors and sailor. For points, the strongest play is pibals — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parboils. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bails, boils and labor. For points, the strongest plays are blips, pibal, and probs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in parboils produces 101 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, also and bail. For points, the strongest plays are baps, blip, bops, and prob — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling parboils turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, bar and bra. For points, the strongest plays are bap and bop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parboils. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, is, or, and so. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including ab, ba and bi.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in parboils plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in parboils 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.
parboils 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 parboils. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
parboils is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parboils unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is parboils, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from parboils 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 parboils produce 264 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 101 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.