Hidden inside imports sit imports and tropism, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 148 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imports and tropism tie for the highest Scrabble score from imports at 11 points. The top 10 of 148 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in imports: one comes from rearranging its letters, and imports itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are imports and tropism, 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 imports turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are import, impost, impros, porism, primos, and tromps, 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 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imports. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moist, proms, riots, sport, stomp, storm, and strip. For points, the strongest plays are impro, primo, prims, prism, proms, romps, stomp, and tromp — 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 imports produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mops, most, pits, post, pots, prom, and pros. For points, the strongest plays are imps, mips, mops, poms, prim, prom, romp, 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 imports turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, mop, pit, pot, pro, rip, and sip. 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imports. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are mi, mo, om, op, 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.
Swap a single tile in imports and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
imports 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eight senses for imports. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
imports is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imports unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are imports and tropism, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from imports 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 imports produce 148 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.