imperfects needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 496 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imperfects is the highest-scoring word from imperfects, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 496 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in imperfects — and it is imperfects itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imperfects produces exactly one nine-letter word: imperfect. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imperfects. If a familiar word is all you need, start with receipts. For points, the strongest plays are perfects and prefects — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in imperfects produces 45 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empires, emptier and firmest. For points, the strongest plays are perfect and prefect — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imperfects turns up 85 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with creeps, crimes and empire. For points, the strongest plays are crimps and scrimp — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 139 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imperfects. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, crime and feces. For points, the strongest play is crimp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in imperfects produces 133 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, mice and pees. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including firm, feme and fems.
Unscrambling imperfects turns up 69 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imperfects. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
imperfects 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 imperfects. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
imperfects is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imperfects unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is imperfects, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from imperfects 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 imperfects produce 496 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 45 seven-letter words, 85 six-letter words, 139 five-letter words, 133 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.