imbibing needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 18 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imbibing is the highest-scoring word from imbibing, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 18 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in imbibing — and it is imbibing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imbibing produces exactly one six-letter word: bimini. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imbibing produces exactly one five-letter word: nimbi. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
imbibing 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 imbibing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
imbibing is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imbibing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is imbibing, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from imbibing 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 imbibing produce 18 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 2 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.