impound needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impound is the highest-scoring word from impound, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in impound — and it is impound itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impound. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pound. For points, the strongest play is opium — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in impound produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dump, mind and pond. For points, the strongest play is dump — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling impound turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dip, mop, mud, and pin. For points, the strongest plays are imp, mop, pom, and ump — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impound. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and in. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including um, up and mi.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in impound plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in impound 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.
impound 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 two senses for impound. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
impound is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing impound unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is impound, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from impound 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 impound produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.