Hidden inside glimpse sit glimpse and megilps, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 102 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble PSEGLIM, GIMPSLE or GEMPLIS and you get the same 7 letters as GLIMPSE: so the words from GLIMPSE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
glimpse and megilps tie for the highest Scrabble score from glimpse at 12 points. The top 10 of 102 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in glimpse: one comes from rearranging its letters, and glimpse 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 glimpse and megilps, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in glimpse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with miles, piles, and smile. For points, the strongest play is gimps — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in glimpse produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with legs, lies and lips. For points, the strongest play is gimp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling glimpse turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leg, lie and lip. For points, the strongest play is imp — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in glimpse plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in glimpse 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.
glimpse 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 four senses for glimpse. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
glimpse is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing glimpse unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are glimpse and megilps, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from glimpse 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 glimpse produce 102 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.