parabolic needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 204 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parabolic is the highest-scoring word from parabolic, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 204 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in parabolic — and it is parabolic itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling parabolic produces exactly one eight-letter word: braciola. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in parabolic produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is copaiba, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling parabolic turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apical, arabic, carpal, picara, and picaro, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parabolic. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cobra and labor. For points, the strongest plays are abaci, barca, baric, boric, cabal, capri, carbo, carob, carpi, cibol, cobia, cobra, copal, copra, pibal, pical, plica, and rabic — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in parabolic produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bail, boil, clap, clip, cola, crab, and crap. For points, the strongest plays are blip, bloc, capo, carb, carp, clap, clip, clop, copi, crab, crap, crib, crip, crop, paca, pica, and prob — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling parabolic turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, bar, bra, cab, cap, car, and cop. For points, the strongest plays are bap, bop, cab, cap, cob, cop, pac, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parabolic. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, bi, bo, op, pa, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in parabolic plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in parabolic 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.
parabolic 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 4-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 parabolic. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
parabolic is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parabolic unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is parabolic, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from parabolic 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 parabolic produce 204 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.