Hidden inside dimples sit dimples and mispled, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 144 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dimples and mispled tie for the highest Scrabble score from dimples at 12 points. The top 10 of 144 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in dimples: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dimples itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dimples and mispled, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dimples turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with simple and smiled. For points, the strongest plays are dimple, impled, and limped — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dimples. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dimes, miles, piles, slide, smile, and spied. For points, the strongest play is imped — 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 dimples produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, dime, dips, lids, lied, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are imps, limp, mips, and simp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dimples turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip, ids, led, lid, lie, and lip. For points, the strongest play is imp — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dimples. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, 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 dimples and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
dimples 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for dimples. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
dimples is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dimples unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dimples and mispled, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dimples 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 dimples produce 144 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.