parentless needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 889 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parentless is the highest-scoring word from parentless, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 889 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in parentless — and it is parentless itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling parentless turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is peartness, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 39 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parentless. If a familiar word is all you need, start with presents. For points, the strongest plays are paleness, paneless, pasterns, pensters, persalts, pertness, petrales, planters, plasters, pleasers, pleaters, prelates, presales, presents, psalters, raptness, relapses, repanels, replants, replates, serpents, spelters, staplers, tapeless, and trapeses — 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 parentless produces 114 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eastern, easters, eternal, nearest, parents, planets, and present. For points, the strongest plays are aptness, arpents, asperse, elapses, entraps, epaters, lapsers, leapers, napless, nepetas, palters, paneers, pantses, parents, pareses, pastels, pastern, pasters, patness, pelters, penates, penster, persalt, pesetas, pesters, pestles, petrale, petrels, planers, planets, planter, plaster, platens, platers, pleaser, pleases, pleater, prelate, presale, present, presets, psalter, relapse, repanel, repasts, repeals, repeats, repents, replans, replant, replate, respelt, retapes, sapeles, serapes, serpent, sparest, spelean, spelter, spleens, splents, stapler, staples, tapless, and trepans — 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 parentless turns up 195 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, asleep, easter, enters, erases, and lasers. For points, the strongest plays are arpens, arpent, asleep, aspens, aspers, elapse, enrapt, entrap, epater, etapes, lapser, lapses, leaper, lepers, nepeta, palest, palets, palter, paneer, panels, parens, parent, parles, parses, passee, passel, passer, pastel, paster, pastes, patens, paters, pearls, peasen, peases, pelter, perses, peseta, pester, pestle, petals, peters, petrel, planer, planes, planet, plants, platen, plater, plates, please, pleats, prases, prates, preens, preset, prests, repass, repast, repeal, repeat, repels, repent, replan, retape, saleps, sapele, sepals, septal, serape, sleeps, sneaps, spales, spares, sparse, spates, speans, spears, speels, speers, spelts, spense, splats, spleen, splent, sprats, sprees, sprent, stapes, staple, steeps, straps, streps, tapers, tepals, trapes, and trepan — 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 252 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parentless. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nests, pants, parts, pasts, peels, penes, and plane. For points, the strongest plays are napes, neaps, neeps, paler, pales, palet, panel, panes, pants, paren, pares, parle, parse, parts, pases, passe, paste, pasts, paten, pater, pates, peals, peans, pearl, pears, peart, pease, peats, peels, peens, peers, peles, pelts, penal, penes, perea, peres, perse, pests, petal, peter, plane, plans, plant, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, plena, prase, prate, prats, preen, prees, presa, prese, press, prest, rapes, rasps, reaps, repel, salep, salps, seeps, sepal, septa, septs, slaps, sleep, slept, snaps, sneap, spaes, spale, spans, spare, spars, spate, spats, spean, spear, speel, speer, spelt, spent, splat, sprat, spree, steep, steps, strap, strep, taper, tapes, tarps, tepal, tepas, apers, apres, apses, apter, arpen, aspen, asper, etape, lapse, larps, leaps, leapt, leper, lepta, and traps — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in parentless produces 187 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, apes, arts, lane, laps, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are alps, aper, apes, apse, asps, laps, larp, leap, lept, nape, naps, neap, neep, pale, pals, pane, pans, pant, pare, pars, part, pase, pass, past, pate, pats, peal, pean, pear, peas, peat, peel, peen, peer, pees, pele, pelt, pens, pent, pere, pert, pest, pets, plan, plat, plea, prat, pree, psst, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, salp, saps, seep, seps, sept, slap, snap, spae, span, spar, spas, spat, step, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, and trap — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling parentless turns up 80 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ape, are, art, ass, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, apt, asp, lap, nap, pal, pan, par, pas, pat, pea, pee, pen, per, pes, pet, pst, rap, rep, sap, spa, and tap — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parentless. 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 parentless plus one additional letter.
parentless 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 one sense for parentless. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
parentless is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parentless unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is parentless, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from parentless 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 parentless produce 889 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 39 eight-letter words, 114 seven-letter words, 195 six-letter words, 252 five-letter words, 187 four-letter words, 80 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.