imprison needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 136 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imprison is the highest-scoring word from imprison, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 136 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in imprison — and it is imprison itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imprison turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prison. For points, the strongest plays are impros, porism, and primos — 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 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imprison. If a familiar word is all you need, start with irons, minor, porns, and proms. For points, the strongest plays are impis, impro, primi, primo, prims, prism, proms, and romps — 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 imprison produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with iron, mops, pins, porn, prom, pros, and rips. For points, the strongest plays are impi, imps, mips, mops, poms, prim, prom, romp, 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 imprison turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mop, nor, pin, pro, rip, sin, and sip. For points, the strongest plays are imp, mop, and pom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imprison. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are mi, mo, om, op, pi, and po — 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 imprison and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
imprison 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 imprison. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
imprison is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imprison unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is imprison, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from imprison 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 imprison produce 136 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 10 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.