Hidden inside impressive sit impressive and permissive, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 257 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impressive and permissive tie for the highest Scrabble score from impressive at 17 points. The top 10 of 257 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in impressive: one comes from rearranging its letters, and impressive itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with impressive. For points, the strongest plays are impressive and permissive — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling impressive produces exactly one nine-letter word: remissive. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impressive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with miseries. For points, the strongest plays are emissive and previses — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in impressive produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empires, impress, and messier. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including missive, previse and privies.
Unscrambling impressive turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empire, series, serves, and sperms. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including verism, vermes and vermis.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impressive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with press, prime and rises. For points, the strongest plays are pervs, spivs, veeps, and viper — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in impressive produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever, eves and mess. For points, the strongest plays are perv, spiv, veep, and vims — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling impressive turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, pee and per. For points, the strongest play is vim — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
impressive 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 impressive. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
impressive is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing impressive unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are impressive and permissive, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from impressive 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 impressive produce 257 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 8 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.