Hidden inside imbeds sit bedims and imbeds, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 58 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bedims and imbeds tie for the highest Scrabble score from imbeds at 11 points. The top 10 of 58 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in imbeds: one comes from rearranging its letters, and imbeds itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bedims and imbeds, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imbeds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dimes. For points, the strongest plays are bedim and imbed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in imbeds produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beds, bids, dibs, dies, dime, and side. For points, the strongest play is mibs — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling imbeds turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bid, die, and ids. For points, the strongest play is mib — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imbeds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, id, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are be, bi, em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in imbeds and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
imbeds 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 2-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 imbeds. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
imbeds is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imbeds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bedims and imbeds, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from imbeds 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 imbeds produce 58 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.