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Anagrams of PARSES

8 words use exactly A E P R S S

  • Common 5
  • parses8
  • passer8
  • spares8
  • sparse8
  • spears8
  • Less common 2
  • aspers8
  • repass8
  • Rare 1
  • prases8

Every word in ENABLE (a public-domain Scrabble-style list) made of exactly these 6 letters, slurs removed, common words first. 5 are common in English dictionaries (the SCOWL grade); ASPERS and REPASS are less common; PRASES is rare. Each scores 8 points at face value. It is number 6 of the 10 groups with the most common anagrams, out of 830 groups that qualify.

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The page is named PARSES because the rule names each group after its most common member, and PARSES ties with PASSER, SPARES, SPARSE and SPEARS on the commonness grade, so the tie goes A to Z. Every word here has this one page; none gets a page of its own.

81 shorter words from A E P R S S The same list the solver gives for PARSES: every word of 2 to 5 letters these tiles make, each letter used at most as often as it appears. Longest first; common words first in each length, A to Z inside each grade. The longest are 5 letters. The top scorer is APERS at 7 points.

5 letters 22 words

  • Common 12
  • arses5
  • pares7
  • parse7
  • pears7
  • press7
  • rapes7
  • rasps7
  • reaps7
  • sears5
  • spare7
  • spars7
  • spear7
  • Everyday 1
  • apses7
  • Less common 3
  • asper7
  • prase7
  • presa7
  • Rare 6
  • apers7
  • apres7
  • pases7
  • passe7
  • rases5
  • spaes7

4 letters 28 words

  • Common 19
  • apes6
  • ares4
  • arse4
  • ears4
  • eras4
  • pare6
  • pars6
  • pass6
  • pear6
  • peas6
  • rape6
  • raps6
  • rasp6
  • reap6
  • saps6
  • sear4
  • seas4
  • spar6
  • spas6
  • Everyday 3
  • apse6
  • asps6
  • reps6
  • Less common 2
  • pase6
  • spae6
  • Rare 4
  • aper6
  • rase4
  • sera4
  • sers4

3 letters 23 words

  • Common 13
  • ape5
  • are3
  • ass3
  • ear3
  • era3
  • par5
  • pas5
  • pea5
  • per5
  • rap5
  • sap5
  • sea3
  • spa5
  • Everyday 2
  • asp5
  • rep5
  • Less common 1
  • pes5
  • Rare 7
  • ars3
  • ers3
  • ess3
  • ras3
  • res3
  • sae3
  • ser3

2 letters 8 words

  • Common 3
  • as2
  • pa4
  • re2
  • Everyday 1
  • es2
  • Less common 2
  • er2
  • pe4
  • Rare 2
  • ae2
  • ar2