Hidden inside importunes sit importunes and resumption, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1090 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
importunes and resumption tie for the highest Scrabble score from importunes at 14 points. The top 10 of 1090 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in importunes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and importunes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are importunes and resumption, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling importunes turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are importune, imposture, and orpiments, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in importunes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with routines. For points, 10 words tie at 12 points, including imposter, impurest and imputers.
Rearranging the letters in importunes produces 119 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mentors, minutes and moister. For points, 34 words tie at 11 points, including permits, promise and emptins.
Unscrambling importunes turns up 218 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mentor, minute and mounts. For points, 32 words tie at 10 points, including permit, impone and import.
There are 291 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in importunes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noise, notes and nurse. For points, 25 words tie at 9 points, including poems, prime and proms.
Rearranging the letters in importunes produces 257 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with menu, mine and mint. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including mops, poem and prom.
Unscrambling importunes turns up 131 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, men and met. For points, the strongest plays are imp, mop, pom, and ump — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 36 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in importunes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, 12 words tie at 4 points, including me, um and up.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in importunes plus one additional letter.
importunes 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 importunes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
importunes is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing importunes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are importunes and resumption, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from importunes 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 importunes produce 1090 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 31 eight-letter words, 119 seven-letter words, 218 six-letter words, 291 five-letter words, 257 four-letter words, 131 three-letter words and 36 two-letter words.