Hidden inside parings sit parings, parsing, rasping and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parings, parsing, rasping and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from parings at 10 points. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in parings: three come from rearranging its letters, and parings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sparing. For points, the strongest plays are parings, parsing, rasping, and sparing — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling parings turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spring. For points, the strongest plays are paring, prangs, raping, sprang, and spring — 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 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, grips, pains, pairs, rains, and rings. For points, the strongest plays are aping, grasp, grips, pangs, pings, prang, prigs, spang, sprag, and sprig — 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 parings produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, gain, gaps, grip, nags, naps, and pain. For points, the strongest plays are gaps, gasp, gips, grip, pang, pigs, 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 parings turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, gap, gas, nag, nap, pan, and pig. 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. 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.
24 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in parings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in parings 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.
parings 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 parings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
parings is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are parings, parsing, rasping, and sparing, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parings 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 parings produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.