Hidden inside parasites sit aspirates, parasites, and satrapies, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 482 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aspirates, parasites, and satrapies tie for the highest Scrabble score from parasites at 11 points. The top 10 of 482 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in parasites: two come from rearranging its letters, and parasites 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 aspirates, parasites, and satrapies, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parasites. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aspirate, parasite, pastries and 6 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in parasites produces 39 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parties, pirates and praises. For points, 32 words tie at 9 points, including parties, pirates and praises.
Unscrambling parasites turns up 85 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pastas, pirate and praise. For points, 59 words tie at 8 points, including pastas, pirate and praise.
There are 141 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parasites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apart, areas and pairs. For points, 85 words tie at 7 points, including apart, pairs and parts.
Rearranging the letters in parasites produces 117 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes and area. For points, 58 words tie at 6 points, including apes, pair and part.
Unscrambling parasites turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape and are. For points, 24 words tie at 5 points, including ape, pea and per.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parasites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in parasites plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in parasites 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.
parasites 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 parasites. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
parasites is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parasites unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aspirates, parasites, and satrapies, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parasites 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 parasites produce 482 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 39 seven-letter words, 85 six-letter words, 141 five-letter words, 117 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.