Hidden inside impels sit impels and simple, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impels and simple tie for the highest Scrabble score from impels at 10 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in impels: one comes from rearranging its letters, and impels itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with simple. For points, the strongest plays are impels and simple — 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with miles, piles, and smile. For points, the strongest plays are impel and limps — 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 impels produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lies, lips, mile, pies, pile, slim, and slip. For points, the strongest plays are imps, limp, mips, and simp — 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 impels turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, lip, pie, and sip. 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 impels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is 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 impels 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.
impels 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 impels. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
impels is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing impels unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are impels and simple, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from impels 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 impels produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.