importune needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 376 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
importune is the highest-scoring word from importune, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 376 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in importune — and it is importune itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in importune. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is orpiment, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in importune produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with routine. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including imputer, pimento and pinetum.
Unscrambling importune turns up 50 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mentor, minute, and permit. For points, 13 words tie at 10 points, including permit, impone and import.
There are 82 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in importune. If a familiar word is all you need, start with minor, mount and outer. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including prime, impro and moper.
Rearranging the letters in importune produces 113 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with menu, mine and mint. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including poem, prom and temp.
Unscrambling importune turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with men, met and mop. For points, the strongest plays are imp, mop, pom, and ump — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in importune. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it and me. For points, 12 words tie at 4 points, including me, um and up.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in importune plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in importune 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.
importune 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for importune. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
importune is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing importune unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is importune, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from importune 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 importune produce 376 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 50 six-letter words, 82 five-letter words, 113 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.