Hidden inside impaler sit impaler, impearl, lempira and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 163 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impaler, impearl, lempira and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from impaler at 11 points. The top 10 of 163 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in impaler: three come from rearranging its letters, and impaler itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are impaler, impearl, lempira, and palmier, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling impaler turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ampler, impale, limper, palmer, prelim, primal, and rimple, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impaler. If a familiar word is all you need, start with email, lamer, maple, and prime. For points, the strongest plays are ample, impel, limpa, maple, milpa, prima, prime, and remap — 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 impaler produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lame, lamp, leap, liar, mail, male, and meal. For points, the strongest plays are lamp, limp, palm, perm, pima, pram, prim, and ramp — 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 impaler turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, ape, are, arm, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, and pam — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impaler. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, pa, pe, and pi — 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 impaler and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
impaler 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.
impaler is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing impaler unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are impaler, impearl, lempira, and palmier, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from impaler 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 impaler produce 163 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.