Hidden inside parvises sit parvises and pavisers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 243 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parvises and pavisers tie for the highest Scrabble score from parvises at 13 points. The top 10 of 243 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in parvises: one comes from rearranging its letters, and parvises itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are parvises and pavisers, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in parvises produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with praises. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including parvise, passive and paviser.
Unscrambling parvises turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with praise, raises, and spares. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including parvis, pavers and pavise.
There are 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parvises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pairs, press and raise. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including parve, paver and paves.
Rearranging the letters in parvises produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes and ears. For points, the strongest plays are pave, perv, spiv, and vape — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling parvises turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape and are. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including ave, rev and sev.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parvises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in parvises plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in parvises and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
parvises 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.
parvises is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parvises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are parvises and pavisers, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parvises 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 parvises produce 243 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.