parentages needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 681 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parentages is the highest-scoring word from parentages, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 681 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in parentages — and it is parentages itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling parentages produces exactly one nine-letter word: parentage. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parentages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pageants, separate, and sergeant. For points, the strongest plays are pageants and trepangs — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in parentages produces 50 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern, nearest, pageant, parents, present, repeats, and strange. For points, the strongest plays are pageant, parangs, pargets, presage, septage, 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 parentages turns up 126 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, agrees, angers, easter, enters, grants, and grapes. For points, the strongest plays are agapes, gapers, gasper, grapes, pagans, pagers, pangas, parang, parges, parget, peages, prangs, repegs, sparge, and sprang — 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 209 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parentages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pages, pants, parts, pasta, penes, rages, and range. For points, the strongest plays are pagan, pager, pages, panga, pangs, parge, peage, peags, prang, repeg, agape, gaper, gapes, grape, grasp, spang, and sprag — 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 parentages produces 176 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants, apes, area, arts, nags, and naps. For points, the strongest plays are page, pang, peag, pegs, gape, gaps, and gasp — 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 parentages turns up 86 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parentages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in parentages plus one additional letter.
parentages 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 parentages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
parentages is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parentages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is parentages, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from parentages 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 parentages produce 681 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 14 eight-letter words, 50 seven-letter words, 126 six-letter words, 209 five-letter words, 176 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.