Hidden inside parchesi sit aspheric, parchesi, and seraphic, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 379 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aspheric, parchesi, and seraphic tie for the highest Scrabble score from parchesi at 15 points. The top 10 of 379 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in parchesi: two come from rearranging its letters, and parchesi 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 aspheric, parchesi, and seraphic, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in parchesi produces 11 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 ceriphs, ciphers, eparchs, parches, and spheric, 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 parchesi turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chairs, phrase, praise, prices, scrape, and search. For points, the strongest plays are capish, ceriph, chapes, cheaps, chirps, cipher, eparch, phasic, preach, and scarph — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parchesi. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, cares, chair, chase, cheap, chips, and craps. For points, the strongest plays are caphs, chape, chaps, cheap, chips, chirp, parch, peach, pechs, and perch — 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 parchesi produces 110 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes, cape, caps, care, cars, and case. For points, the strongest plays are caph, chap, chip, and pech — each 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 parchesi turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape, are, ash, cap, car, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hap, hep, hic, hip, ich, pah, peh, and phi — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parchesi. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, eh, ha, he, hi, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, hi, 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.
Swap a single tile in parchesi 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.
parchesi 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 one sense for parchesi. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
parchesi is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parchesi unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aspheric, parchesi, and seraphic, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parchesi 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 parchesi produce 379 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 110 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.