impermanent needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 480 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impermanent is the highest-scoring word from impermanent, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 480 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in impermanent — and it is impermanent itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling impermanent produces exactly one nine-letter word: permanent. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impermanent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meantime. For points, the strongest plays are immanent, meantime, and permeant — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in impermanent produces 39 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emptier. For points, 12 words tie at 11 points, including emptier, ammeter and marmite.
Unscrambling impermanent turns up 96 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empire, entire and intern. For points, 23 words tie at 10 points, including empire, permit and ammine.
There are 103 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impermanent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eaten, enter and inner. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including prime, emmer and emmet.
Rearranging the letters in impermanent produces 125 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, main and mate. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including ramp, temp and maim.
Unscrambling impermanent turns up 83 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and ant. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including map, amp and imp.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impermanent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
impermanent 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 5-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 impermanent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
impermanent is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing impermanent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is impermanent, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from impermanent 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 impermanent produce 480 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 39 seven-letter words, 96 six-letter words, 103 five-letter words, 125 four-letter words, 83 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.