Hidden inside impaste sit impaste and pastime, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 194 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impaste and pastime tie for the highest Scrabble score from impaste at 11 points. The top 10 of 194 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in impaste: one comes from rearranging its letters, and impaste 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 impaste and pastime, 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 impaste turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are misate, miseat, pastie, petsai, pietas, and samite, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impaste. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, mates, meats, stamp, steam, tapes, and teams. For points, the strongest plays are pimas, stamp, tamps, tempi, and temps — 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 impaste produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, apes, east, eats, item, maps, and mate. For points, the strongest plays are amps, imps, maps, mips, pams, pima, samp, simp, spam, tamp, and temp — 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 impaste turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ape, ate, eat, its, map, and met. 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impaste. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, is, it, 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 impaste 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.
impaste 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.
impaste is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing impaste unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are impaste and pastime, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from impaste 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 impaste produce 194 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.