Hidden inside epidermal sit epidermal, impearled, and impleader, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 424 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
epidermal, impearled, and impleader tie for the highest Scrabble score from epidermal at 14 points. The top 10 of 424 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in epidermal: two come from rearranging its letters, and epidermal itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are epidermal, impearled, and impleader, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in epidermal. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pedalier, remailed, and remedial, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in epidermal produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emailed. For points, the strongest plays are demirep, empaled, epiderm, impaled, impeder, implead, premade, and rimpled — 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 epidermal turns up 76 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admire, dealer, diaper, empire, leader, leaped, and mailed. For points, the strongest plays are damper, deperm, dimple, impede, impled, lamped, limped, palmed, permed, premed, primed, and ramped — 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 90 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in epidermal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, aired, armed, dream, email, ideal, and lamer. For points, the strongest plays are amped and imped — each 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 epidermal produces 130 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laid, lame, lamp, lead, leap, liar, and lied. For points, the strongest play is damp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling epidermal turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim, air, ape, are, arm, and die. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in epidermal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, id, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, pa, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in epidermal plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in epidermal and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
epidermal 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 one sense for epidermal. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
epidermal is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing epidermal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are epidermal, impearled, and impleader, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from epidermal 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 epidermal produce 424 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 76 six-letter words, 90 five-letter words, 130 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.