Hidden inside imperils sit imperils and limpsier, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 166 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imperils and limpsier tie for the highest Scrabble score from imperils at 12 points. The top 10 of 166 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in imperils: one comes from rearranging its letters, and imperils itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are imperils and limpsier, 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 imperils produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with implies and simpler. For points, the strongest plays are imperil, implies, limpers, pismire, prelims, primsie, rimples, and simpler — 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 imperils turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with simple. For points, the strongest plays are impels, limper, prelim, primes, rimple, simper, simple, and spirem — 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 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imperils. If a familiar word is all you need, start with miles, piles, prime, smile, and sperm. For points, the strongest plays are impel, impis, limps, perms, prime, primi, prims, prism, and sperm — 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 imperils produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lies, lips, mile, pies, pile, reps, and rips. For points, the strongest plays are impi, imps, limp, mips, perm, prim, and simp — 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 imperils turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, lip, per, pie, rep, rip, and sip. 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 imperils. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is 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 imperils and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
imperils 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 one sense for imperils. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
imperils is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imperils unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are imperils and limpsier, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from imperils 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 imperils produce 166 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.