Hidden inside paring sit paring and raping, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
paring and raping tie for the highest Scrabble score from paring at 9 points. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in paring: one comes from rearranging its letters, and paring itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are paring and raping, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paring. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aping and prang, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in paring produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, grip, pain, pair, rain, rang, and ring. For points, the strongest plays are grip, pang, ping, and prig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling paring turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, gap, nag, nap, pan, pig, and pin. For points, the strongest plays are gap, gip, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are pa 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 paring 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.
paring 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 two senses for paring. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
paring is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing paring unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are paring and raping, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from paring 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 paring produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.