Hidden inside impress sit impress, premiss, simpers and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impress, premiss, simpers and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from impress at 11 points. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in impress: three come from rearranging its letters, and impress itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with impress. For points, the strongest plays are impress, premiss, simpers, and spirems — 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 impress turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sperms. For points, the strongest plays are primes, prisms, simper, sperms, and spirem — 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 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impress. If a familiar word is all you need, start with press, prime, rises, sperm, and spies. For points, the strongest plays are perms, prime, prims, prism, simps, and sperm — 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 impress produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mess, miss, pies, reps, rips, rise, and sips. For points, the strongest plays are imps, mips, perm, prim, 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 impress turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, pie, rep, rip, sip, and sir. For points, the strongest play is imp — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impress. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, pe, and pi — 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 impress 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.
impress 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 eight senses for impress. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
impress is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing impress unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are impress, premiss, simpers, and spirems, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from impress 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 impress produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.