Hidden inside paresis sit aspires, paresis, parises and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 176 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aspires, paresis, parises and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from paresis at 9 points. The top 10 of 176 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in paresis: four come from rearranging its letters, and paresis itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with praises. For points, the strongest plays are aspires, paresis, parises, praises, and spireas — 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 paresis turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with praise, raises, and spares. For points, the strongest plays are aspers, aspire, paries, parses, passer, pisser, praise, prases, prises, repass, sepias, spares, sparse, spears, speirs, spiers, spirea, and spires — 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 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paresis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pairs, press, raise, rises, spare, and spies. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apses, apsis, asper, aspis, pairs, paise, pares, paris, parse, pases, passe, pears, peris, piers, prase, presa, press, pries, prise, priss, rapes, rasps, reaps, ripes, sepia, sipes, spaes, spare, spars, spear, speir, spier, spies, and spire — 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 paresis produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes, ears, eras, pair, pass, and peas. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apse, asps, pair, pare, pars, pase, pass, pear, peas, peri, pias, pier, pies, piss, psis, rape, raps, rasp, reap, reps, ripe, rips, saps, seps, sipe, sips, spae, spar, and spas — 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 paresis turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape, are, ass, ear, era, and pea. For points, the strongest plays are ape, asp, par, pas, pea, per, pes, pia, pie, pis, psi, rap, rep, rip, sap, sip, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paresis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in paresis and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
paresis 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 one sense for paresis. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
paresis is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing paresis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aspires, paresis, parises, praises, and spireas, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from paresis 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 paresis produce 176 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.