Hidden inside paroles sit paroles and reposal, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 238 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
paroles and reposal tie for the highest Scrabble score from paroles at 9 points. The top 10 of 238 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in paroles: one comes from rearranging its letters, and paroles 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 paroles and reposal, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling paroles turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with operas. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including operas, aslope and lapser.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paroles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laser, leaps and loser. For points, 47 words tie at 7 points, including leaps, opera and poles.
Rearranging the letters in paroles produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, apes and laps. For points, 44 words tie at 6 points, including apes, laps and leap.
Unscrambling paroles turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and ear. For points, 23 words tie at 5 points, including ape, lap and pal.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paroles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
18 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in paroles plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in paroles 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.
paroles 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.
Dictionaries record four senses for paroles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
paroles is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing paroles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are paroles and reposal, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from paroles 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 paroles produce 238 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.