Hidden inside parenthesis sit interphases and parenthesis, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1462 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
interphases and parenthesis tie for the highest Scrabble score from parenthesis at 16 points. The top 10 of 1462 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in parenthesis: one comes from rearranging its letters, and parenthesis itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are interphases and parenthesis, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in parenthesis produces 7 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antiherpes, interphase, and therapises, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling parenthesis turns up 32 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with therapies. For points, the strongest plays are apheresis, inspheres, nephrites, perianths, pharisees, phrensies, spheriest, therapies, therapise, thespians, tranships, transship, and trephines — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 87 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parenthesis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with presents and sharpest. For points, the strongest plays are haptenes, harpists, heparins, heptanes, hipsters, insphere, nephrite, panthers, parishes, perianth, perishes, pharisee, phenates, pheresis, preheats, reshapes, seraphin, sharpens, sharpest, sharpies, starship, steepish, thespian, tranship, trephine, and triphase — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in parenthesis produces 221 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easiest, eastern, easters, entries, nastier, nearest, and neither. For points, the strongest plays are apheses, aphesis, haptene, haptens, harpies, harpins, harpist, hatpins, heapers, heparin, heptane, hipness, hipster, inphase, panther, peahens, phasers, phenate, phrases, pishers, preheat, prithee, raspish, reshape, reships, seraphs, shapers, sharpen, sharpie, sherpas, spahees, spathes, sphenes, spheres, tephras, threaps, and threeps — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling parenthesis turns up 330 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saints, sanest, series, shapes, shares, sheets, and shiest. For points, the strongest plays are seraph, shapen, shaper, shapes, sharps, sherpa, shnaps, spahee, spahis, spathe, sphene, sphere, staphs, tephra, teraph, thesps, threap, threep, thrips, aspish, hapten, harpin, hatpin, heaper, herpes, parish, pashes, peahen, perish, phaser, phases, phasis, phrase, pisher, pishes, raphes, raphis, and reship — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 365 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parenthesis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, nests, pains, paint, pairs, pants, and parts. For points, the strongest plays are aphis, apish, paths, phase, piths, raphe, shape, sharp, sheep, ships, spahi, staph, ephas, harps, hasps, heaps, thesp, and thrip — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in parenthesis produces 266 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants, apes, arts, naps, near, and neat. For points, the strongest plays are pash, path, pehs, phat, phis, pish, pith, ship, epha, haps, harp, hasp, heap, heps, and hips — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling parenthesis turns up 123 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, ape, are, art, ash, and ass. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hep, hip, pah, peh, phi, and pht — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parenthesis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 twelve-letter words can be made using all the letters in parenthesis plus one additional letter.
parenthesis 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 1-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 parenthesis. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
parenthesis is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parenthesis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are interphases and parenthesis, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parenthesis 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 parenthesis produce 1462 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 7 ten-letter words, 32 nine-letter words, 87 eight-letter words, 221 seven-letter words, 330 six-letter words, 365 five-letter words, 266 four-letter words, 123 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.