imbecilic needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imbecilic is the highest-scoring word from imbecilic, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in imbecilic — and it is imbecilic itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in imbecilic produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lice, mice, and mile. For points, the strongest plays are bice, emic, limb, and mice — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
imbecilic 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 one sense for imbecilic. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
imbecilic is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imbecilic unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is imbecilic, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from imbecilic 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 imbecilic produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.