Hidden inside parotids sit parodist and parotids, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 354 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parodist and parotids tie for the highest Scrabble score from parotids at 11 points. The top 10 of 354 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in parotids: one comes from rearranging its letters, and parotids 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 parodist and parotids, 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 parotids produces 7 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 dispart, disport, parotid, sparoid, torpids, and tripods, 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 parotids turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adopts and radios. For points, the strongest plays are adopts, rapids, sparid, torpid, and tripod — 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 96 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parotids. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adopt, drips, drops, pairs, parts, radio, and riots. For points, the strongest plays are adopt, apods, dipso, dopas, dorps, drips, dript, drops, dropt, padis, padri, pardi, pards, podia, prods, rapid, sapid, and spado — 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 parotids produces 126 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, arts, pads, paid, pair, and part. For points, the strongest plays are apod, padi, pads, paid, pard, pods, prod, daps, dips, dipt, dopa, 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 parotids turns up 78 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, art, dip, dot, and ids. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dip, pad, 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parotids. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, do, id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, 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 parotids 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.
parotids 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 one sense for parotids. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
parotids is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parotids unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are parodist and parotids, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parotids 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 parotids produce 354 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 96 five-letter words, 126 four-letter words, 78 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.