parities needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 304 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parities is the highest-scoring word from parities, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 304 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in parities — and it is parities itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in parities produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parties and pirates. For points, the strongest plays are parties, pastier, piaster, piastre, pirates, pitiers, praties, tipsier, and traipse — 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 parities turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pirate, pities, praise, priest, spirit, and stripe. For points, the strongest plays are aspire, esprit, paries, paster, pastie, paters, periti, petsai, pietas, pirate, pitier, pities, praise, prates, pratie, priest, rapist, repast, ripest, sitrep, spirea, spirit, sprite, stripe, tapers, tapirs, trapes, and tripes — 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 85 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pairs, parts, raise, rates, spare, stair, and stare. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apter, asper, atrip, pairs, paise, pares, paris, parse, parts, paste, pater, pates, pears, peart, peats, peris, piers, pieta, piste, pitas, prase, prate, prats, presa, prest, pries, prise, rapes, reaps, ripes, sepia, septa, spait, spare, spate, spear, speir, spier, spire, spirt, spite, sprat, sprit, stipe, stirp, strap, strep, strip, taper, tapes, tapir, tapis, tarps, tepas, tipis, 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 parities produces 94 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes, arts, ears, east, eats, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apse, pair, pare, pars, part, pase, past, pate, pats, pear, peas, peat, peri, pert, pest, pets, pias, pier, pies, pita, pits, prat, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, ripe, rips, sept, sipe, spae, spar, spat, spit, step, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, tipi, 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 parities turns up 63 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 ape, apt, asp, 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parities. 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.
Swap a single tile in parities 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.
parities 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for parities. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
parities is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parities unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is parities, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from parities 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 parities produce 304 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 85 five-letter words, 94 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.