Hidden inside gimpy sit gimpy and pigmy, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gimpy and pigmy tie for the highest Scrabble score from gimpy at 13 points. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in gimpy: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gimpy itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gimpy and pigmy, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling gimpy produces exactly one four-letter word: gimp. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gimpy turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gym and pig. For points, the strongest plays are gym and gyp — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gimpy. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: my, worth 7 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 gimpy and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
gimpy 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 2-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 gimpy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
gimpy is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gimpy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gimpy and pigmy, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gimpy 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 gimpy produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 1 four-letter word, 7 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.