Hidden inside praise sit aspire, paries, praise and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 119 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble ASIPER, PREASI or RIPAES and you get the same 6 letters as PRAISE: so the words from PRAISE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
aspire, paries, praise and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from praise at 8 points. The top 10 of 119 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in praise: three come from rearranging its letters, and praise itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with praise. For points, the strongest plays are aspire, paries, praise, and spirea — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in praise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pairs, raise, and spare. For points, 24 words tie at 7 points, including pairs, spare and apers.
Rearranging the letters in praise produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes and ears. For points, 23 words tie at 6 points, including apes, pair and peas.
Unscrambling praise turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape and are. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including ape, pea and per.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in praise. 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.
39 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in praise plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in praise and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
praise 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 three senses for praise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
praise is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing praise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aspire, paries, praise, and spirea, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from praise 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 praise produce 119 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.