Hidden inside parchesis sit ecphrasis and parchesis, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 522 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ecphrasis and parchesis tie for the highest Scrabble score from parchesis at 16 points. The top 10 of 522 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in parchesis: one comes from rearranging its letters, and parchesis itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ecphrasis and parchesis, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parchesis. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aspheric, parchesi, seraphic, and spherics, 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 parchesis produces 36 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crashes, phrases, praises, and scrapes. For points, the strongest plays are ceriphs, ciphers, eparchs, parches, scarphs, 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 parchesis turns up 111 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cashes, chairs, chases, crises, phases, phrase, and praise. 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 141 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parchesis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, capes, cares, cases, chair, chase, and cheap. 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 parchesis produces 131 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes, pair, pass, peas, pies, and race. For points, the strongest plays are pech, caph, chap, and chip — 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 parchesis turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape, are, ash, ass, cap, and car. 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 parchesis. 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in parchesis plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in parchesis 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.
parchesis 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 parchesis. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
parchesis is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parchesis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ecphrasis and parchesis, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parchesis 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 parchesis produce 522 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 36 seven-letter words, 111 six-letter words, 141 five-letter words, 131 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.