Hidden inside parodies sit diaspore and parodies, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 412 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diaspore and parodies tie for the highest Scrabble score from parodies at 11 points. The top 10 of 412 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in parodies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and parodies 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 diaspore and parodies, 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 parodies produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diapers, periods, and praised. For points, the strongest plays are adipose, aspired, despair, diapers, periods, praised, and sparoid — each 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 parodies turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, diaper, operas, period, praise, prides, and radios. For points, the strongest plays are diaper, dopers, dopier, drapes, padres, paired, pardie, parsed, pedros, period, poised, prides, prised, prosed, rapids, rasped, redips, repaid, soaped, spader, spared, sparid, spider, spired, spored, and spread — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 117 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parodies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, aired, aside, dares, dears, dries, and drips. For points, the strongest plays are apods, dipso, dopas, doper, dopes, dorps, drape, drips, drops, padis, padre, padri, pardi, pards, pared, pedis, pedro, podia, pored, posed, pride, pried, prods, raped, rapid, redip, riped, roped, sapid, siped, spade, spado, spaed, spied, and spode — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in parodies produces 128 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, apes, pads, paid, pair, and peas. For points, the strongest plays are aped, apod, oped, padi, pads, paid, pard, pedi, peds, pied, pods, prod, sped, daps, deps, dips, dopa, dope, dorp, drip, and drop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling parodies turns up 78 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, ape, are, die, and dip. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, dip, pad, ped, and pod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parodies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, do, id, is, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, pi, and po — 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 parodies 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.
parodies 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 four senses for parodies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
parodies is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parodies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diaspore and parodies, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parodies 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 parodies produce 412 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 117 five-letter words, 128 four-letter words, 78 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.