Hidden inside parures sit parures and uprears, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parures and uprears tie for the highest Scrabble score from parures at 9 points. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in parures: one comes from rearranging its letters, and parures 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 parures and uprears, 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 parures turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sparer. For points, the strongest plays are parers, pareus, parser, parure, pauser, purser, rapers, rasper, sparer, and uprear — 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 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pause, purer, purse, spare, super, and surer. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, asper, parer, pares, pareu, parrs, parse, pause, pears, prase, praus, presa, purer, purrs, purse, raper, rapes, reaps, spare, spear, sprue, super, and supra — 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 parures produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ears, eras, peas, pure, raps, and rare. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apse, pare, parr, pars, pase, pear, peas, prau, pure, purr, purs, rape, raps, rasp, reap, reps, spae, spar, spue, spur, supe, upas, and urps — 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 parures turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are, ear, era, pea, per, and rap. For points, the strongest plays are ape, asp, par, pas, pea, per, pes, pur, pus, rap, rep, sap, spa, sup, ups, and urp — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and up — 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 parures 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.
parures 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.
parures is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parures unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are parures and uprears, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parures 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 parures produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.