Hidden inside compile sit compile and polemic, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble PELICOM, POILCEM or CLIMPEO and you get the same 7 letters as COMPILE: so the words from COMPILE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
compile and polemic tie for the highest Scrabble score from compile at 13 points. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in compile: one comes from rearranging its letters, and compile 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 compile and polemic, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in compile. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is clomp, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in compile produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clip, come and epic. For points, the strongest play is comp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling compile turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, ice and lie. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including cop, mop and cep.
10 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in compile plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in compile 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.
compile 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 three senses for compile. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
compile is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing compile unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are compile and polemic, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from compile 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 compile produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.