Hidden inside imbalances sit imbalances and misbalance, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 603 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imbalances and misbalance tie for the highest Scrabble score from imbalances at 16 points. The top 10 of 603 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in imbalances: one comes from rearranging its letters, and imbalances itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are imbalances and misbalance, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imbalances turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ambiances and imbalance, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imbalances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with balances. For points, 5 words tie at 14 points, including alembics, ambiance and amicable.
Rearranging the letters in imbalances produces 42 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animals, balance, lesbian, and maniacs. For points, 5 words tie at 13 points, including alembic, ambsace and becalms.
Unscrambling imbalances turns up 93 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, animal and blames. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including climbs, amebic and becalm.
There are 164 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imbalances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien and bails. For points, the strongest play is climb — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in imbalances produces 171 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, aims and amen. For points, 28 words tie at 8 points, including beam, lamb and mice.
Unscrambling imbalances turns up 84 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, bam and ban. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including bam, cab and cam.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imbalances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including am, be and me.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in imbalances plus one additional letter.
imbalances 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for imbalances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
imbalances is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imbalances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are imbalances and misbalance, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from imbalances 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 imbalances produce 603 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 18 eight-letter words, 42 seven-letter words, 93 six-letter words, 164 five-letter words, 171 four-letter words, 84 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.