Hidden inside pariahs sit pariahs and raphias, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 94 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pariahs and raphias tie for the highest Scrabble score from pariahs at 12 points. The top 10 of 94 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in pariahs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pariahs itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pariahs and raphias, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pariahs turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pariah, parish, raphia, and raphis, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pariahs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hairs, pairs, and sharp. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including sharp, aphis and apish.
Rearranging the letters in pariahs produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, hair and hips. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including hips, ship and haps.
Unscrambling pariahs turns up 33 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.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pariahs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and ha. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in pariahs plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pariahs and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
pariahs 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 pariahs carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for pariahs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
pariahs is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pariahs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pariahs and raphias, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pariahs 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 pariahs produce 94 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.