Hidden inside parers sit parers, parser, rapers and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parers, parser, rapers and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from parers at 8 points. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in parers: four come from rearranging its letters, and parers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sparer. For points, the strongest plays are parers, parser, rapers, rasper, and sparer — 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 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spare. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, asper, parer, pares, parrs, parse, pears, prase, presa, raper, rapes, reaps, spare, and spear — 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 parers produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears, eras, peas, raps, rare, and reps. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apse, pare, parr, pars, pase, pear, peas, rape, raps, rasp, reap, reps, spae, and spar — 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 parers turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ear, era, pea, per, and rap. For points, the strongest plays are ape, asp, par, pas, pea, per, pes, rap, rep, sap, and spa — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. 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.
37 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in parers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in parers and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
parers 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 parers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
parers is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are parers, parser, rapers, rasper, and sparer, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parers 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 parers produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.