Hidden inside parsley sit parleys, parsley, players and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 221 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble PEARSLY, PALSERY or PLASYRE and you get the same 7 letters as PARSLEY: so the words from PARSLEY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
parleys, parsley, players and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from parsley at 12 points. The top 10 of 221 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in parsley: four come from rearranging its letters, and parsley itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with players. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including players, parleys and parsley.
Unscrambling parsley turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with layers and player. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including player, parley and payers.
There are 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parsley. If a familiar word is all you need, start with early, laser and layer. For points, 15 words tie at 10 points, including plays, prays and spray.
Rearranging the letters in parsley produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears and easy. For points, 14 words tie at 9 points, including pays, play and pray.
Unscrambling parsley turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and aye. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including pay, spy and yep.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parsley. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
9 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in parsley plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in parsley 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.
parsley 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 two senses for parsley. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
parsley is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parsley unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are parleys, parsley, players, replays, and sparely, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parsley 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 parsley produce 221 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.