Hidden inside parried sit parried and rapider, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 110 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parried and rapider tie for the highest Scrabble score from parried at 10 points. The top 10 of 110 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in parried: one comes from rearranging its letters, and parried itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are parried and rapider, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling parried turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diaper and repair. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including diaper, draper and paired.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parried. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, drier, and pride. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including pride, drape and padre.
Rearranging the letters in parried produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear and drip. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including drip, paid and aped.
Unscrambling parried turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air and ape. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including dip, pad and dap.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parried. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and id. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in parried plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in parried and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
parried 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.
parried is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parried unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are parried and rapider, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parried 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 parried produce 110 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.