parlance needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 164 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parlance is the highest-scoring word from parlance, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 164 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in parlance — and it is parlance itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in parlance produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are capelan and carpale, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling parlance turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with palace. For points, the strongest plays are canape, carpal, carpel, palace, parcel, placer, and prance — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parlance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clean, clear, learn, place, and plane. For points, the strongest plays are apace, caper, crape, pacer, pecan, place, and recap — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in parlance produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, cape, care, clap, crap, earn, and lane. For points, the strongest plays are cape, carp, clap, crap, paca, pace, and perc — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling parlance turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, can, cap, car, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, pac, and pec — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parlance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — 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 parlance 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.
parlance 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 4-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 parlance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
parlance is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parlance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is parlance, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from parlance 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 parlance produce 164 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.