impedance needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 252 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impedance is the highest-scoring word from impedance, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 252 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in impedance — and it is impedance itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impedance. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are encamped and pandemic, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in impedance produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pemican, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling impedance turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with camped and maiden. For points, the strongest plays are camped, decamp, and midcap — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impedance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, dance and media. For points, the strongest play is campi — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in impedance produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, amen and came. For points, the strongest play is camp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling impedance turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and and. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including cap, map and amp.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impedance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in impedance plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in impedance 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.
impedance 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 4-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 impedance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
impedance is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing impedance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is impedance, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from impedance 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 impedance produce 252 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.