parodying needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 318 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parodying is the highest-scoring word from parodying, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 318 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in parodying — and it is parodying itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling parodying produces exactly one eight-letter word: pyranoid. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in parodying produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adoring and praying. For points, the strongest play is prodigy — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling parodying turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with daring, dragon and drying. For points, the strongest plays are parody, paying, and prying — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 75 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parodying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angry, dairy and diary. For points, the strongest play is podgy — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in parodying produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drag, drip and drop. For points, the strongest plays are dopy, gapy, gypo, and pogy — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling parodying turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, aid and air. For points, the strongest play is gyp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parodying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in parodying 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.
parodying 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
parodying is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parodying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is parodying, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from parodying 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 parodying produce 318 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 75 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.