impend 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, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impend is the highest-scoring word from impend, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in impend — and it is impend itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impend. 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 impend produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dime, dine, mind, and mine. For points, the strongest plays are dime, idem, mend, mind, pedi, pend, 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 impend turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip, end, men, pen, pie, and pin. 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impend. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, 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 impend 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.
impend 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 one sense for impend. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
impend is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing impend unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is impend, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from impend 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 impend produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.