Hidden inside paretic sit paretic and picrate, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 159 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
paretic and picrate tie for the highest Scrabble score from paretic at 11 points. The top 10 of 159 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in paretic: one comes from rearranging its letters, and paretic itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are paretic and picrate, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling paretic turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpet and pirate. For points, the strongest plays are carpet, pacier, preact, and tricep — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paretic. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cater, price, and react. For points, the strongest plays are caper, capri, carpi, crape, crept, cripe, epact, pacer, price, and recap — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in paretic produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cape, care, cart, crap, epic, pact, and pair. For points, the strongest plays are cape, carp, crap, crip, epic, pace, pact, perc, pica, and pice — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling paretic turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, ape, are, art, ate, and cap. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, pac, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paretic. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and it. 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 paretic 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.
paretic 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 2-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 paretic. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
paretic is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing paretic unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are paretic and picrate, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from paretic 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 paretic produce 159 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.