Hidden inside imposts sit imposts and misstop, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 104 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imposts and misstop tie for the highest Scrabble score from imposts at 11 points. The top 10 of 104 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in imposts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and imposts 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 imposts and misstop, 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 imposts turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stomps. For points, the strongest plays are impost and stomps — 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imposts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moist, posts, spits, spots, stomp, and stops. For points, the strongest plays are simps and stomp — 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 imposts produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with miss, mops, most, pits, post, pots, and psst. For points, the strongest plays are imps, mips, mops, poms, 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 imposts turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, mop, pit, pot, sip, sit, and tip. 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imposts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, 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 imposts 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.
imposts 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 two senses for imposts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
imposts is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imposts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are imposts and misstop, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from imposts 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 imposts produce 104 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.