Hidden inside parries sit aspirer, parries, praiser and 3 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 154 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aspirer, parries, praiser and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from parries at 9 points. The top 10 of 154 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 seven-letter words hiding in parries: five come from rearranging its letters, and parries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with repairs. For points, the strongest plays are aspirer, parries, praiser, rapiers, raspier, and repairs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling parries turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with praise, repair, and sparer. For points, the strongest plays are aspire, parers, paries, parser, praise, priers, rapers, rapier, rasper, repair, sparer, spirea, and sprier — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pairs, raise, and spare. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, asper, pairs, paise, parer, pares, paris, parrs, parse, pears, peris, piers, prase, presa, prier, pries, prise, raper, rapes, reaps, riper, ripes, sepia, spare, spear, speir, spier, and spire — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in parries produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes, ears, eras, pair, peas, and pies. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apse, pair, pare, parr, pars, pase, pear, peas, peri, pias, pier, pies, rape, raps, rasp, reap, reps, ripe, rips, sipe, spae, and spar — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling parries turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape, are, ear, era, pea, and per. For points, the strongest plays are ape, asp, par, pas, pea, per, pes, pia, pie, pis, psi, rap, rep, rip, sap, sip, and spa — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
Swap a single tile in parries 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.
parries 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 parries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
parries is one of six seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aspirer, parries, praiser, rapiers, raspier, and repairs, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parries 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 parries produce 154 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.