Hidden inside impregnate sit impregnate and permeating, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 666 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impregnate and permeating tie for the highest Scrabble score from impregnate at 15 points. The top 10 of 666 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in impregnate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and impregnate 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 impregnate and permeating, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling impregnate turns up 7 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with repeating. For points, the strongest plays are repigment, tampering, and tempering — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impregnate. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is tramping, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in impregnate produces 73 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emptier, meeting, and tearing. For points, 11 words tie at 12 points, including epigram, gripman and gripmen.
Unscrambling impregnate turns up 126 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, empire and entire. For points, the strongest plays are amping, emping, and magpie — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 140 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impregnate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, agree and anger. For points, the strongest play is gramp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in impregnate produces 169 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, main and mate. For points, the strongest plays are gamp and gimp — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling impregnate turns up 107 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim and air. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impregnate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an 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 impregnate plus one additional letter.
impregnate 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 four senses for impregnate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
impregnate is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing impregnate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are impregnate and permeating, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from impregnate 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 impregnate produce 666 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 7 nine-letter words, 16 eight-letter words, 73 seven-letter words, 126 six-letter words, 140 five-letter words, 169 four-letter words, 107 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.