Hidden inside impinged sit impeding and impinged, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impeding and impinged tie for the highest Scrabble score from impinged at 14 points. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in impinged: one comes from rearranging its letters, and impinged 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 impeding and impinged, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling impinged produces exactly one seven-letter word: impinge. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling impinged turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is gimped, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impinged. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii. For points, the strongest play is imped — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in impinged produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dime, dine, mind, and mine. 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 impinged turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, dip, end, men, pen, and pie. 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 impinged. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in impinged plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in impinged 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.
impinged 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
impinged is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing impinged unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are impeding and impinged, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from impinged 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 impinged produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.