imperfect needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 174 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imperfect is the highest-scoring word from imperfect, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 174 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in imperfect — and it is imperfect itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in imperfect produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emptier, perfect, and receipt. For points, the strongest plays are perfect and prefect — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imperfect turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empire, permit, and recipe. For points, the strongest plays are fierce and refect — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imperfect. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crime, meter and piece. For points, the strongest play is crimp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in imperfect produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with epic, feet and fire. For points, the strongest plays are feme, fice, and firm — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imperfect turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fee, fit and ice. For points, the strongest play is fem — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imperfect. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in imperfect plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in imperfect 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.
imperfect 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 three senses for imperfect. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
imperfect is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imperfect unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is imperfect, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from imperfect 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 imperfect produce 174 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.