imbricates needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 648 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imbricates is the highest-scoring word from imbricates, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 648 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in imbricates — and it is imbricates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imbricates turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is imbricate, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imbricates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are barmiest, casimire, ceramist, matrices, meristic, meticais, mistrace, rabietic, scimetar, scimitar, scimiter, tribasic, and trisemic, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in imbricates produces 38 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maestri. For points, the strongest plays are cambers, cambist, crambes, and iambics — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling imbricates turns up 103 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, barest, braces, breast, caters, cities, and creams. For points, the strongest plays are amebic, camber, crambe, and iambic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 184 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imbricates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with baits, basic, beams, bears, beast, beats, and bites. For points, the strongest plays are acerb, acmes, amber, ambit, amice, amici, baric, barms, basic, beams, bemas, berms, bices, bimas, brace, bract, bream, brims, caber, cames, camis, carbs, ceiba, crabs, crams, cream, cribs, crime, embar, emics, iambi, iambs, mabes, macer, maces, marcs, mbira, mercs, mesic, micas, micra, rabic, scram, and scrim — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in imbricates produces 189 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, aims, airs, arms, arts, bait, and bare. For points, the strongest plays are acme, bams, barm, beam, bema, berm, bice, bima, brim, mabe, mace, macs, marc, merc, mibs, mica, mice, mics, scab, scam, cabs, came, cami, cams, carb, crab, cram, crib, emic, and iamb — each 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 imbricates turns up 92 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aim, air, are, arm, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are bam, cab, cam, mac, mib, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imbricates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, be, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are ab, am, ba, be, bi, em, ma, 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.
imbricates 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for imbricates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
imbricates is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imbricates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is imbricates, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from imbricates 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 imbricates produce 648 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 38 seven-letter words, 103 six-letter words, 184 five-letter words, 189 four-letter words, 92 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.