Hidden inside parsecs sit escarps, parsecs, scrapes and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 171 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
escarps, parsecs, scrapes and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from parsecs at 11 points. The top 10 of 171 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in parsecs: four come from rearranging its letters, and parsecs itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scrapes. For points, the strongest plays are escarps, parsecs, scrapes, secpars, and spacers — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling parsecs turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scares, scrape, spaces, and spares. For points, the strongest plays are capers, crapes, escarp, pacers, parsec, recaps, scapes, scarps, scrape, scraps, secpar, spacer, and spaces — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parsecs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with capes, cares, cases, craps, press, races, and scare. For points, the strongest plays are caper, capes, carps, crape, craps, pacer, paces, percs, recap, scape, scarp, scrap, space, and specs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in parsecs produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, cape, caps, care, cars, case, and crap. For points, the strongest plays are cape, caps, carp, ceps, crap, pace, pacs, pecs, perc, and spec — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling parsecs turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ass, cap, car, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, pac, and pec — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parsecs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — 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 parsecs 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.
parsecs 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for parsecs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
parsecs is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parsecs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are escarps, parsecs, scrapes, secpars, and spacers, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parsecs 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 parsecs produce 171 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.