imagination needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 197 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imagination is the highest-scoring word from imagination, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 197 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in imagination — and it is imagination itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imagination turns up 2 nine-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: animating, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imagination. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maintain. For points, the strongest play is agnomina — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in imagination produces 10 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are angioma, minting, moaning and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imagination turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aiming, naming, nation, and timing. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including aiming, naming and timing.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imagination. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, among, giant, and tango. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including among, amiga and amigo.
Rearranging the letters in imagination produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, gain and goat. For points, the strongest plays are agma, gama, magi, and ogam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imagination turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, aim and ant. For points, the strongest plays are gam, mag, mig, and mog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imagination. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, ma and mi.
1 twelve-letter word can be made using all the letters in imagination plus one additional letter.
imagination 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 imagination. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
imagination is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imagination unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is imagination, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from imagination 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 imagination produce 197 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.