paramount needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 235 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
paramount is the highest-scoring word from paramount, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 235 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in paramount — and it is paramount itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in paramount 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 words are mantrap, pantoum, and rampant, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling paramount turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amount, tampon, and trauma. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including tampon, paramo and potman.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paramount. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apart, mount, and tumor. For points, the strongest plays are praam, tramp, tromp, and trump — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in paramount produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, aunt and auto. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including prom, ramp and pram.
Unscrambling paramount turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, arm and art. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including map, mop and amp.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in paramount. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 10 words tie at 4 points, including am, um and up.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in paramount plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in paramount 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.
paramount 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 one sense for paramount. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
paramount is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing paramount unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is paramount, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from paramount 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 paramount produce 235 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.