implosive needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 201 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
implosive is the highest-scoring word from implosive, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 201 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in implosive — and it is implosive itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in implosive produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with implies. For points, the strongest plays are mislive and plosive — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling implosive turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with movies, olives, and simple. For points, the strongest plays are movies and pelvis — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in implosive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limos, lives and loves. For points, the strongest plays are moves and movie — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in implosive produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with evil, lies and limo. For points, the strongest plays are move, spiv, and vims — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling implosive turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, lip and mop. For points, the strongest play is vim — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in implosive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, me, and so. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in implosive plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in implosive 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.
implosive 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.
implosive is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing implosive unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is implosive, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from implosive 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 implosive produce 201 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.