Hidden inside parliaments sit parliaments and paternalism, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1850 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parliaments and paternalism tie for the highest Scrabble score from parliaments at 15 points. The top 10 of 1850 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in parliaments: one comes from rearranging its letters, and parliaments itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are parliaments and paternalism, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in parliaments produces 4 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are implanters, parliament, reimplants, and spermatial, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling parliaments turns up 27 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airplanes and materials. For points, the strongest plays are implanter, malaperts, palmister, paraments, pearmains, prelatism, primatals, reimplant, spearmint, and spermatia — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 108 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parliaments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airplane, animates, manliest, material, plainest, and pleasant. For points, the strongest plays are antispam, impalers, impanels, impearls, implants, lempiras, malapert, maniples, mantraps, misplant, paeanism, palmiers, palmiest, parament, parmesan, pastrami, pearmain, primatal, primates, sapremia, septimal, spearman, templars, and tramples — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in parliaments produces 258 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animals, animate, maestri, manlier, nastier, panties, and parents. For points, the strongest plays are amplest, armpits, emptins, impalas, impaler, impales, impanel, imparts, impaste, impearl, implant, impresa, imprest, lampers, lempira, limpers, limpest, limpets, maniple, mantrap, mispart, misplan, napalms, palmate, palmers, palmier, palmist, pastime, permian, permits, pitmans, plasmin, plenism, prelims, primate, rampant, restamp, rimples, sampler, simpler, stamper, tampans, tampers, templar, timpana, trample, tripman, and tripmen — 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 parliaments turns up 398 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lamest, learns, listen, maples, master, mental, and metals. For points, the strongest plays are lampas, limpas, limper, limpet, maples, milpas, mispen, plasma, praams, prelim, preman, primal, primas, primes, remaps, rimple, spirem, tampan, tamper, tramps, ampler, apeman, armpit, impala, impale, impart, impels, napalm, palmar, palmer, permit, pitman, pitmen, sampan, sample, simper, and simple — 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 502 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parliaments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alarm, alert, alien, altar, alter, and apart. For points, the strongest plays are ample, impel, lamps, limpa, limps, maple, milpa, palms, perms, pimas, plasm, praam, prams, prima, prime, prims, prism, psalm, ramps, remap, sperm, stamp, tamps, tempi, temps, and tramp — 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 parliaments produces 373 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, amen, ants, apes, area, and arms. For points, the strongest plays are amps, lamp, limp, maps, mips, palm, pams, perm, pima, pram, prim, ramp, samp, simp, spam, tamp, temp, and imps — 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 parliaments turns up 145 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, ant, ape, are, arm, and art. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, and pam — 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 33 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parliaments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, 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.
2 twelve-letter words can be made using all the letters in parliaments plus one additional letter.
parliaments 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 two senses for parliaments. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
parliaments is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parliaments unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are parliaments and paternalism, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parliaments 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 parliaments produce 1850 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 4 ten-letter words, 27 nine-letter words, 108 eight-letter words, 258 seven-letter words, 398 six-letter words, 502 five-letter words, 373 four-letter words, 145 three-letter words and 33 two-letter words.