impatient needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 191 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impatient is the highest-scoring word from impatient, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 191 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in impatient — and it is impatient itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling impatient produces exactly one eight-letter word: intimate. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in impatient produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with patient. For points, the strongest plays are impaint and timpani — 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 impatient turns up 20 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pitman and pitmen, 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 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impatient. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meant, paint, and tempt. For points, the strongest plays are tempi and tempt — 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 impatient produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, item, main, mate, mean, meat, and mine. For points, the strongest plays are impi, pima, 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 impatient turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, ape, ate, eat, man, and map. 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 impatient. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, in, 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 impatient 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.
impatient 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 impatient. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
impatient is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing impatient unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is impatient, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from impatient 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 impatient produce 191 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.