impending needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 112 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impending is the highest-scoring word from impending, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 112 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in impending — and it is impending itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impending. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are impeding and impinged, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in impending produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with minding. For points, the strongest play is impinge — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling impending turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dining and ending. For points, the strongest play is gimped — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impending. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii. For points, the strongest play 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 impending produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dime, dine, mind, mine, and nine. For points, the strongest play is gimp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling impending turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, dip, end, men, pen, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impending. 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 impending 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.
impending 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 5-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 impending. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
impending is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing impending unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is impending, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from impending 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 impending produce 112 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.