parchments needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 901 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parchments is the highest-scoring word from parchments, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 901 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in parchments — and it is parchments itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling parchments turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is parchment, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parchments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chapters. For points, the strongest play is champers — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in parchments produces 66 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anthems, carpets and chapter. For points, the strongest plays are champer and chapmen — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling parchments turns up 151 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anthem, carpet and caters. For points, the strongest play is champs — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 277 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parchments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with names, pacts and pants. For points, the strongest play is champ — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in parchments produces 252 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ahem and amen. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including caph, cham and chap.
Unscrambling parchments turns up 112 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and ape. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including ham, hap and hem.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parchments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and an. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in parchments plus one additional letter.
parchments 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 parchments. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
parchments is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parchments unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is parchments, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from parchments 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 parchments produce 901 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 66 seven-letter words, 151 six-letter words, 277 five-letter words, 252 four-letter words, 112 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.