Hidden inside parleying sit pargyline, parleying, and replaying, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 424 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pargyline, parleying, and replaying tie for the highest Scrabble score from parleying at 15 points. The top 10 of 424 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in parleying: two come from rearranging its letters, and parleying itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pargyline, parleying, and replaying, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parleying. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are repaying and replying, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in parleying produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leaping, plainer, playing, praying, and relying. For points, the strongest plays are epigyna, playing, praying, preying, and yelping — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling parleying turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laying, nearly, paying, and player. For points, the strongest plays are grapey, gripey, paying, plying, and prying — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 96 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parleying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, angel, anger, angle, angry, early, and gayer. For points, the strongest plays are grapy and gripy — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in parleying produces 131 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lane, lean, leap, liar, line, nail, and near. For points, the strongest play is gapy — 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 parleying turns up 89 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, any, ape, are, aye, and ear. For points, the strongest play is gyp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parleying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, ay, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in parleying plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in parleying and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
parleying 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.
parleying is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parleying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pargyline, parleying, and replaying, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parleying 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 parleying produce 424 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 96 five-letter words, 131 four-letter words, 89 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.