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.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in importunes: one come 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.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
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.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
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, the strongest plays are imposter, impurest, imputers, nepotism, orpiment, pimentos, promines, protiums, stompier, and stumpier — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in importunes produces 119 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mentors, minutes, moister, monster, permits, promise, and routine. For points, the strongest plays are emptins, impetus, impones, imports, imposer, imprest, imputer, imputes, mopiest, optimes, peonism, permits, pimento, pinetum, postmen, promine, promise, protium, rumpots, semipro, spumier, spumone, spumoni, stomper, stumper, sumpter, supremo, tripmen, trompes, tropism, umpires, umptier, uptimes, and utopism — 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 importunes turns up 218 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mentor, minute, mounts, permit, person, points, and ponies. For points, the strongest plays are impone, import, impose, impost, impros, impure, impute, mispen, mopers, mopier, opiums, optime, permit, pitmen, porism, potmen, primes, primos, primus, proems, purism, rumpot, septum, simper, spirem, tempos, trompe, tromps, trumps, umpire, upmost, and uptime — 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 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, nurse, opens, outer, penis, and poems. For points, the strongest plays are opium, perms, poems, pomes, prime, primo, prims, prism, proem, proms, romps, rumps, sperm, spume, stomp, stump, tempi, tempo, temps, impro, moper, mopes, tromp, trump, and tumps — 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 importunes produces 257 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with menu, mine, mint, mops, more, most, and must. For points, the strongest plays are mips, mope, mops, perm, poem, pome, poms, prim, prom, romp, rump, simp, imps, sump, temp, tump, and umps — 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 importunes turns up 131 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, men, met, mop, net, nor, and not. For points, the strongest plays are imp, mop, pom, and ump — 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 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, it, me, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, mu, om, op, pe, pi, po, um, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in importunes plus one additional letter.
If you only take one play from this page, make it importunes and resumption — at 14 points in Scrabble, nothing else built from importunes pays better.
Hidden inside importunes are 1090 valid words in total. Broken down by length: 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.
Under the hood, UnscrambleX runs importunes against full game dictionaries, keeps only the arrangements that are legal to play, and ranks what survives by score — which is how importunes and resumption end up at the top of your results. The same engine powers checks for Scrabble, Words With Friends, and Word Jumble, so a word shown here is a word you can actually put on the board.
Every rack tells a story, and importunes is no exception. Once the letters come apart, two paths open up on the board.
You can chase the points with importunes, or play it safe with a quick low-tile drop like en and er when the board leaves you no room.
That gap matters: the weakest play here earns 2 points while the strongest reaches 14, so the same letters can swing an entire turn depending on where and how they land.
UnscrambleX lays out the full spread so you can weigh a big score against board control before committing — and along the way you'll bump into words you didn't know were words.
Treat the results list as a practice drill, not just an answer key. Cover it, shuffle importunes in your head, and count how many of the 1090 words you can spot before peeking.
Most players catch the obvious ones like importunes and resumption quickly — it's the short survivors that slip past unnoticed, and those misses are the useful part.
Run the same drill on a few racks a day and the letter patterns start jumping out on their own, no unscrambler needed.
You collect words you'd never look up. Nobody opens a dictionary hunting for en — but once it turns up in a results list, it's yours to play forever.
Spelling stops being guesswork: rebuilding importunes from loose tiles forces you to commit to a letter order and get corrected instantly, a faster feedback loop than any spelling drill. And with plays from importunes worth anywhere between 2 and 14 points, every turn doubles as a small economics problem — take the points now, or hold the flexible tiles for a better board.
Words you've physically assembled also stick better than words you've only read, which is exactly what timed formats punish you for not having.