Hidden inside impalers sit impalers, impearls, lempiras and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 441 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impalers, impearls, lempiras and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from impalers at 12 points. The top 10 of 441 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in impalers: three come from rearranging its letters, and impalers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are impalers, impearls, lempiras, and palmiers, 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 impalers produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with simpler. For points, the strongest plays are impaler, impales, impearl, impresa, lampers, lempira, limpers, palmers, palmier, prelims, rimples, sampler, and simpler — 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 impalers turns up 50 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, emails, maples, praise, sample, serial, and simple. For points, the strongest plays are ampler, impale, impels, limpas, limper, maples, milpas, palmer, prelim, primal, primas, primes, remaps, rimple, sample, simper, simple, and spirem — 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 129 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impalers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, email, lamer, lamps, laser, leaps, and liars. For points, the strongest plays are ample, impel, lamps, limpa, limps, maple, milpa, palms, perms, pimas, plasm, prams, prima, prime, prims, prism, psalm, ramps, remap, and sperm — 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 impalers produces 145 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, apes, arms, lame, lamp, and laps. For points, the strongest plays are amps, lamp, limp, maps, mips, palm, pams, perm, pima, pram, prim, ramp, samp, simp, spam, and imps — 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 impalers turns up 75 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impalers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, is, 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 impalers and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
impalers 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.
impalers is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing impalers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are impalers, impearls, lempiras, and palmiers, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from impalers 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 impalers produce 441 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 50 six-letter words, 129 five-letter words, 145 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.