79 words come out when you unscramble PARAVAIL, starting with PARAVAIL itself: 13 in Scrabble, 16 in Words With Friends. Among the shorter answers, 10 reach 8 points, VIRAL, RIVAL and AVAIL among them. It has 8 letters, 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from PARAVAIL split into 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 6, 13 with 5, 32 with 4, 23 with 3 and 8 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Keep every letter of PARAVAIL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with PA · ending in IL · all 8-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with ALVAR, ARVAL, AVAIL, LARVA, RIVAL, VARIA and VIRAL (8 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble UK accepts PARAVAIL, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARAVAIL itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 79) | 59 | 78 | 54 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
20 of the 79 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PARAVAIL, LAVRA, PARIAL, PAV, ALAAP, ALAPA, AVAL, PRIAL, RIVA, VALI, VRIL, ALAP and 8 more. 4 of the 79 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: ALVAR, LIPA, PALI and RAI. 1 of the 79 answers is missing from Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: LARP.