Hidden inside pariah sit pariah and raphia, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pariah and raphia tie for the highest Scrabble score from pariah at 11 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in pariah: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pariah itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pariah and raphia, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pariah turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha and air. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hip, pah, and phi — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
5 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in pariah plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pariah and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
pariah 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in pariah carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for pariah. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
pariah is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pariah unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pariah and raphia, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pariah 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 pariah produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.