Hidden inside parroting sit parroting and prorating, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 274 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parroting and prorating tie for the highest Scrabble score from parroting at 12 points. The top 10 of 274 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in parroting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and parroting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are parroting and prorating, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in parroting produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airport. For points, the strongest plays are parring, parting, pignora, porting, and prating — 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 parroting turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rating and taping. For points, the strongest plays are opting, paring, poring, ragtop, raping, roping, taping, and toping — 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 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parroting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giant, grant, groin, organ, paint, piano, and point. For points, the strongest plays are aping, gipon, gript, oping, pargo, pingo, pirog, prang, and prong — 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 parroting produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, goat, grip, into, iron, pain, and pair. For points, the strongest plays are gorp, grip, pang, ping, pong, prig, and prog — 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 parroting turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, air, ant, art, gap, got, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are gap, gip, and pig — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parroting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, go, in, it, no, and on. 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in parroting plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in parroting 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.
parroting 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
parroting is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parroting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are parroting and prorating, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parroting 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 parroting produce 274 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.