Hidden inside parasite sit aspirate, parasite, and septaria, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 335 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aspirate, parasite, and septaria tie for the highest Scrabble score from parasite at 10 points. The top 10 of 335 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in parasite: two come from rearranging its letters, and parasite itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aspirate, parasite, and septaria, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in parasite produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parties and pirates. For points, the strongest plays are apteria, parties, pastier, piaster, piastre, pirates, praties, spiraea, and traipse — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling parasite turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pirate, praise, priest, and stripe. For points, the strongest plays are arepas, aspire, esprit, paries, paster, pastie, paters, petsai, pietas, pirate, praise, prates, pratie, priest, rapist, repast, ripest, sarape, satrap, sitrep, spirea, sprite, stripe, tapers, tapirs, trapes, and tripes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 100 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parasite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apart, areas, pairs, parts, pasta, raise, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are apart, apers, apres, apter, arepa, asper, ataps, atrip, pairs, paisa, paise, parae, paras, pares, paris, parse, parts, pasta, paste, pater, pates, pears, peart, peats, peris, piers, pieta, piste, pitas, prase, prate, prats, presa, prest, pries, prise, rapes, reaps, ripes, sepia, septa, spait, spare, spate, spear, speir, spier, spire, spirt, spite, sprat, sprit, stipe, stirp, strap, strep, strip, tapas, taper, tapes, tapir, tapis, tarps, tepas, traps, tripe, and trips — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in parasite produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes, area, arts, ears, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apse, atap, pair, para, pare, pars, part, pase, past, pate, pats, pear, peas, peat, peri, pert, pest, pets, pias, pier, pies, pita, pits, prat, rape, raps, rapt, rasp, reap, reps, ripe, rips, sept, sipe, spae, spar, spat, spit, step, tapa, tape, taps, tarp, tepa, tips, trap, and trip — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling parasite turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, asp, par, pas, pat, pea, per, pes, pet, pia, pie, pis, pit, psi, pst, rap, rep, rip, sap, sip, spa, tap, and tip — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parasite. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in parasite and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
parasite 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 parasite. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
parasite is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parasite unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aspirate, parasite, and septaria, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from parasite 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 parasite produce 335 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 100 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.