imperials needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 473 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imperials is the highest-scoring word from imperials, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 473 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in imperials — and it is imperials itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imperials. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are impalers, impearls, imperial and 4 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in imperials produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with implies, similar, and simpler. For points, 19 words tie at 11 points, including implies, simpler and impairs.
Unscrambling imperials turns up 55 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, emails and maples. For points, 19 words tie at 10 points, including maples, sample and simple.
There are 134 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imperials. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, email and lamer. For points, 22 words tie at 9 points, including lamps, maple and prime.
Rearranging the letters in imperials produces 151 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and apes. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including lamp, maps and ramp.
Unscrambling imperials turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and ape. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imperials. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, is, and me. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in imperials plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in imperials 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.
imperials 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 six senses for imperials. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
imperials is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imperials unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is imperials, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from imperials 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 imperials produce 473 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 55 six-letter words, 134 five-letter words, 151 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.