Hidden inside impelled sit impelled and milleped, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impelled and milleped tie for the highest Scrabble score from impelled at 13 points. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in impelled: one comes from rearranging its letters, and impelled itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are impelled and milleped, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling impelled turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dimple, impede, impled, and limped, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impelled. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is imped, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in impelled produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deli, dime, lied, mild, mile, and peed. For points, the strongest play is limp — 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 impelled turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip, ill, led, lid, lie, and lip. 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impelled. 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 impelled and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
impelled 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 impelled. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
impelled is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing impelled unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are impelled and milleped, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from impelled 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 impelled produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.