Hidden inside imaginers sit imaginers and migraines, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 433 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imaginers and migraines tie for the highest Scrabble score from imaginers at 12 points. The top 10 of 433 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in imaginers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and imaginers 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 imaginers and migraines, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imaginers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with imagines. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including imagines, imaginer and migraine.
Rearranging the letters in imaginers produces 31 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing, imagine and raising. For points, 16 words tie at 10 points, including imagine, armings and engrams.
Unscrambling imaginers turns up 71 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aiming, airing and angers. For points, 23 words tie at 9 points, including aiming, images and ageism.
There are 105 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imaginers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, earns and gains. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including games, germs and image.
Rearranging the letters in imaginers produces 123 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims and airs. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including game, germ and mage.
Unscrambling imaginers turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim and air. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including gam, gem and mag.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imaginers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
8 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in imaginers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in imaginers 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.
imaginers 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.
imaginers is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imaginers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are imaginers and migraines, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from imaginers 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 imaginers produce 433 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 31 seven-letter words, 71 six-letter words, 105 five-letter words, 123 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.