Hidden inside paruresis sit paruresis and upraisers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 334 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
paruresis and upraisers tie for the highest Scrabble score from paruresis at 11 points. The top 10 of 334 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in paruresis: one comes from rearranging its letters, and paruresis 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 paruresis and upraisers, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paruresis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with surprise. For points, the strongest plays are aspirers, praisers, spurries, surprise, upraiser, upraises, and uprisers — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in paruresis produces 31 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with praises and repairs. For points, the strongest plays are aspirer, aspires, paresis, parises, parries, parsers, parures, pausers, praiser, praises, pursers, pursier, pussier, rapiers, raspers, raspier, repairs, sparers, sparser, spireas, suspire, upraise, uprears, upriser, and uprises — 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 paruresis turns up 56 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assure, pauses, praise, purses, raises, repair, and sparer. For points, the strongest plays are aspers, aspire, parers, pareus, paries, parser, parses, parure, passer, pauser, pauses, pisser, praise, prases, priers, prises, purser, purses, rapers, rapier, rasper, repair, repass, sepias, sirups, sparer, spares, sparse, spears, speirs, spiers, spirea, spires, sprier, sprues, supers, upases, uprear, and uprise — 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 93 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paruresis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with issue, pairs, pause, press, purer, purse, and raise. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apses, apsis, asper, aspis, pairs, paise, parer, pares, pareu, paris, parrs, parse, pases, passe, pause, pears, peris, piers, prase, praus, presa, press, prier, pries, prise, priss, purer, puris, purrs, purse, puses, raper, rapes, rasps, reaps, riper, ripes, sepia, sipes, sirup, spaes, spare, spars, spear, speir, spier, spies, spire, sprue, spues, spurs, super, supes, 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 paruresis produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes, ears, eras, pair, pass, and peas. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apse, asps, pair, pare, parr, pars, pase, pass, pear, peas, peri, pias, pier, pies, piss, prau, psis, pure, puri, purr, purs, puss, rape, raps, rasp, reap, reps, ripe, rips, saps, seps, sipe, sips, spae, spar, spas, spue, spur, supe, sups, 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 paruresis turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape, are, ass, ear, era, and pea. For points, the strongest plays are ape, asp, par, pas, pea, per, pes, pia, pie, pis, piu, psi, pur, pus, rap, rep, rip, sap, sip, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paruresis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, is, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, pi, 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 paruresis 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.
paruresis is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
paruresis is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing paruresis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are paruresis and upraisers, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from paruresis 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 paruresis produce 334 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 31 seven-letter words, 56 six-letter words, 93 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.