Hidden inside imprecates sit imprecates and spermaceti, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1002 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imprecates and spermaceti tie for the highest Scrabble score from imprecates at 16 points. The top 10 of 1002 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in imprecates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and imprecates 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 imprecates and spermaceti, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imprecates turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crampiest, impacters, imprecate, and spermatic, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imprecates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with receipts. For points, 6 words tie at 14 points, including campiest, campsite and crampits.
Rearranging the letters in imprecates produces 113 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpets, creates and empires. For points, 6 words tie at 13 points, including campers, campier and crampit.
Unscrambling imprecates turns up 193 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, carpet and caters. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including camper, cramps and crimps.
There are 289 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imprecates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pacts, pairs and parts. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including camps, scamp and campi.
Rearranging the letters in imprecates produces 237 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, aims and airs. For points, the strongest play is camp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imprecates turns up 113 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aim and air. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including cap, map and amp.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imprecates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in imprecates plus one additional letter.
imprecates 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 3-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 imprecates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
imprecates is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imprecates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are imprecates and spermaceti, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from imprecates 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 imprecates produce 1002 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 nine-letter words, 26 eight-letter words, 113 seven-letter words, 193 six-letter words, 289 five-letter words, 237 four-letter words, 113 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.