parsimonious needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 668 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
parsimonious is the highest-scoring word from parsimonious, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 668 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in parsimonious — and it is parsimonious itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling parsimonious produces exactly one ten-letter word: prosimians. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling parsimonious turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are impassion, imprisons, and prosimian, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parsimonious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aspirins. For points, 8 words tie at 12 points, including imporous, imprison and pianisms.
Rearranging the letters in parsimonious produces 57 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aspirin, mission and passion. For points, 9 words tie at 11 points, including impairs, impious and opossum.
Unscrambling parsimonious turns up 92 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with morons, pianos and poison. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including impair, impros and opiums.
There are 168 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parsimonious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pains, pairs and piano. For points, 22 words tie at 9 points, including proms, ramps and opium.
Rearranging the letters in parsimonious produces 191 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and anus. For points, 22 words tie at 8 points, including maps, mops and prom.
Unscrambling parsimonious turns up 109 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and arm. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including map, mop and amp.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in parsimonious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 12 words tie at 4 points, including am, um and up.
parsimonious 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 parsimonious. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
parsimonious is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing parsimonious unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is parsimonious, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from parsimonious 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 parsimonious produce 668 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 17 eight-letter words, 57 seven-letter words, 92 six-letter words, 168 five-letter words, 191 four-letter words, 109 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.