Hidden inside impartial sit impartial and primatial, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 178 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impartial and primatial tie for the highest Scrabble score from impartial at 13 points. The top 10 of 178 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in impartial: one comes from rearranging its letters, and impartial itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are impartial and primatial, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling impartial produces exactly one eight-letter word: primatal. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in impartial produces 5 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 airmail, marital, martial, partial, and tilapia, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling impartial turns up 13 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are armpit, impair, impala, impart, palmar, and primal, 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 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impartial. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alarm, altar, apart, limit, trail, and trial. For points, the strongest plays are limpa, milpa, praam, prima, primi, and tramp — 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 impartial produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lamp, liar, mail, pair, part, ramp, and tail. For points, the strongest plays are impi, lamp, limp, palm, pima, pram, prim, ramp, and tamp — 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 impartial turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, arm, art, lap, lip, and lit. 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impartial. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, and it. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mi, pa, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in impartial plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in impartial and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
impartial 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 two senses for impartial. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
impartial is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing impartial unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are impartial and primatial, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from impartial 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 impartial produce 178 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.