Hidden inside parishes sit parishes and sharpies, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 295 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parishes and sharpies tie for the highest Scrabble score from parishes at 13 points. The top 10 of 295 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in parishes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and parishes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are parishes and sharpies, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in parishes produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with phrases and praises. For points, 11 words tie at 12 points, including phrases, aphesis and harpies.
Unscrambling parishes turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with phases, phrase and praise. For points, 19 words tie at 11 points, including phases, phrase and shapes.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ashes, hairs and hears. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including phase, shape and sharp.
Rearranging the letters in parishes produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes and ears. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including hips, ship and epha.
Unscrambling parishes turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape and are. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including hip, hap and hep.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and eh. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
14 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in parishes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in parishes and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
parishes 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in parishes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for parishes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
parishes is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parishes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are parishes and sharpies, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parishes 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 parishes produce 295 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.