parentage needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 260 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parentage is the highest-scoring word from parentage, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 260 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in parentage — and it is parentage itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in parentage produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pageant. For points, the strongest plays are pageant and trepang — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling parentage turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with neater, parent, and repeat. For points, the strongest plays are parang and parget — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parentage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, agree, anger, apart, eaten, enter, and grant. For points, the strongest plays are agape, gaper, grape, pagan, pager, panga, parge, peage, prang, and repeg — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in parentage produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, earn, gate, gene, near, neat, and page. For points, the strongest plays are gape, page, pang, and peag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling parentage turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant, ape, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are gap and peg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parentage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in parentage plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in parentage 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.
parentage 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 three senses for parentage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
parentage is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parentage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is parentage, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from parentage 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 parentage produce 260 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.