Hidden inside parsers sit parsers, raspers, sparers and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parsers, raspers, sparers and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from parsers at 9 points. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in parsers: three come from rearranging its letters, and parsers 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 parsers, raspers, sparers, and sparser, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling parsers turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sparer and spares. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including sparer, spares and aspers.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parsers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with press and spare. For points, 22 words tie at 7 points, including press, spare and apers.
Rearranging the letters in parsers produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears and eras. For points, 21 words tie at 6 points, including apes, pass and peas.
Unscrambling parsers turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and ass. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including ape, pea and per.
13 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in parsers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in parsers 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.
parsers 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 parsers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
parsers is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parsers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are parsers, raspers, sparers, and sparser, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parsers 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 parsers produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.