impede needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impede is the highest-scoring word from impede, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in impede — and it is impede itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling impede produces exactly one five-letter word: imped. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in impede produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, dime, and peed. For points, the strongest plays are deem, deep, deme, dime, idem, meed, pedi, peed, and pied — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling impede turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip, pee, and pie. For points, the strongest play is imp — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impede. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, 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 impede and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
impede 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 two senses for impede. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
impede is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing impede unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is impede, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from impede 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 impede produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 10 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.