Hidden inside importer sit importer and reimport, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 155 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
importer and reimport tie for the highest Scrabble score from importer at 12 points. The top 10 of 155 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in importer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and importer 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 importer and reimport, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in importer produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pretrim and primero, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling importer turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with permit and report. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including permit, import and mopier.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in importer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prime. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including prime, impro and moper.
Rearranging the letters in importer produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, more and poem. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including poem, prom and temp.
Unscrambling importer turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met, mop and per. For points, the strongest plays are imp, mop, and pom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in importer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with it, me, or, and to. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in importer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in importer 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.
importer 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 importer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
importer is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing importer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are importer and reimport, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from importer 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 importer produce 155 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.