Hidden inside imperialist sit imperialist and primalities, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 991 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imperialist and primalities tie for the highest Scrabble score from imperialist at 15 points. The top 10 of 991 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in imperialist: one comes from rearranging its letters, and imperialist itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are imperialist and primalities, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in imperialist produces 3 valid ten-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with militaries. For points, the strongest play is imparities — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling imperialist turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are imperials, palmister, prelatism, and prelimits, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imperialist. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are impalers, impearls, imperial, imperils, lempiras, limpsier, palmiers, palmiest, prelimit, primates, septimal, templars, and tramples, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in imperialist produces 106 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with implies, maestri, parties, permits, pirates, saltier, and similar. For points, the strongest plays are amplest, armpits, impairs, impaler, impales, imparts, impaste, impearl, imperia, imperil, implies, impresa, imprest, lampers, lempira, limpers, limpest, limpets, mispart, palmers, palmier, palmist, pastime, permits, pietism, pismire, prelims, primate, primsie, restamp, rimples, sampler, simpler, stamper, tampers, templar, and trample — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling imperialist turns up 165 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, armies, emails, lamest, limits, and maples. For points, the strongest plays are ampler, armpit, impair, impale, impart, impels, limpas, limper, limpet, maples, milpas, palmer, permit, prelim, primal, primas, primes, remaps, rimple, sample, simper, simple, spirem, tamper, and tramps — 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 284 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imperialist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, lamer, lamps, laser, later, leaps, and leapt. For points, the strongest plays are impel, impis, lamps, limpa, limps, maple, milpa, palms, perms, pimas, plasm, prams, prima, prime, primi, prims, prism, psalm, ramps, remap, sperm, stamp, tamps, tempi, temps, ample, and tramp — 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 imperialist produces 259 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, apes, arms, arts, lame, and lamp. For points, the strongest plays are amps, lamp, limp, maps, mips, palm, pams, perm, pima, pram, prim, ramp, samp, simp, spam, impi, imps, tamp, and temp — 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 imperialist turns up 111 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, ape, are, arm, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imperialist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, pa, 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.
1 twelve-letter word can be made using all the letters in imperialist plus one additional letter.
imperialist 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 imperialist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
imperialist is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imperialist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are imperialist and primalities, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from imperialist 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 imperialist produce 991 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 3 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 30 eight-letter words, 106 seven-letter words, 165 six-letter words, 284 five-letter words, 259 four-letter words, 111 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.