impetigo needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impetigo is the highest-scoring word from impetigo, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in impetigo — and it is impetigo itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling impetigo produces exactly one six-letter word: optime. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impetigo. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tempi and tempo, 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 impetigo produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, poem, poet, temp, and time. For points, the strongest play is gimp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling impetigo turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, get, got, met, mop, pet, and pie. For points, the strongest plays are imp, mop, and pom — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impetigo. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, it, me, and to. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, om, op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in impetigo plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in impetigo 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.
impetigo 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 impetigo. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
impetigo is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing impetigo unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is impetigo, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from impetigo 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 impetigo produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.