Hidden inside parietals sit parietals and psalteria, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 665 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parietals and psalteria tie for the highest Scrabble score from parietals at 11 points. The top 10 of 665 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in parietals: one comes from rearranging its letters, and parietals itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are parietals and psalteria, 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 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parietals. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aspirate, palestra, parasite, parietal, partials, pilaster, plaister, plaiters, septaria, and stapelia, 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 parietals produces 42 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parties, pirates, and saltier. For points, the strongest plays are aplites, apteral, apteria, earlaps, palates, paliest, palsier, palters, partial, parties, pastier, persalt, piaster, piastre, pirates, plaiter, plaster, platers, platier, platies, praties, psalter, resplit, spatial, spiraea, stapler, talipes, traipse, and triples — 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 parietals turns up 109 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, altars, alters, pirate, plates, praise, and priest. For points, the strongest plays are aplite, arepas, aspire, earlap, espial, esprit, lapser, lipase, lisper, palais, palate, palest, palets, palier, palter, paries, parles, pastel, paster, pastie, pastil, paters, pearls, perils, petals, petsai, pietas, pirate, plaits, plater, plates, pleats, pliers, praise, prates, pratie, priest, rapist, repast, ripest, salpae, sarape, satrap, septal, sitrep, spiral, spirea, spital, sprite, staple, stipel, stripe, tapers, tapirs, tepals, trapes, tripes, and triple — 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 210 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parietals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pairs, parts, pasta, piles, plate, raise, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are pails, pairs, paisa, paise, palea, paler, pales, palet, palis, palsa, parae, paras, pares, paris, parle, parse, parts, pasta, paste, pater, pates, peals, pearl, pears, peart, peats, pelts, peril, peris, petal, piers, pieta, pilar, pilea, piles, piste, pitas, plait, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, plier, plies, prase, prate, prats, presa, prest, pries, prise, rapes, reaps, ripes, salep, salpa, sepal, sepia, septa, slept, slipe, slipt, spail, spait, spale, spare, spate, spear, speil, speir, spelt, spiel, spier, spile, spilt, spire, spirt, spite, splat, split, sprat, sprit, stipe, stirp, strap, strep, strip, tapas, taper, tapes, tapir, tapis, tarps, tepal, tepas, apart, apers, apres, apter, arepa, asper, ataps, atrip, lapis, lapse, larps, leaps, leapt, lepta, lipas, traps, tripe, and trips — 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 parietals produces 181 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes, area, arts, laps, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are alps, aper, apes, apse, atap, laps, larp, leap, lept, lipa, lipe, lips, lisp, pail, pair, pale, pali, pals, para, pare, pars, part, pase, past, pate, pats, peal, pear, peas, peat, pelt, peri, pert, pest, pets, pial, pias, pier, pies, pile, pita, pits, plat, plea, plie, prat, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, ripe, rips, salp, sept, sipe, slap, slip, spae, spar, spat, spit, step, tapa, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, tips, trap, and trip — 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 parietals turns up 88 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, apt, asp, lap, lip, pal, par, pas, pat, pea, per, pes, pet, pia, pie, pis, pit, psi, pst, rap, rep, rip, sap, sip, spa, tap, and tip — 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parietals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in parietals plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in parietals and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
parietals 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 parietals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
parietals is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parietals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are parietals and psalteria, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parietals 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 parietals produce 665 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 42 seven-letter words, 109 six-letter words, 210 five-letter words, 181 four-letter words, 88 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.