improbable needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 427 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
improbable is the highest-scoring word from improbable, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 427 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in improbable — and it is improbable itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in improbable. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is probable, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in improbable produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with problem. For points, the strongest plays are bramble and problem — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling improbable turns up 43 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aplomb, bomber, and mobber, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in improbable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, bible and blame. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including bebop, bimbo and blimp.
Rearranging the letters in improbable produces 146 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bail and bare. For points, the strongest play is bomb — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling improbable turns up 96 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and ape. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including bam, map and mob.
There are 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in improbable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, be, me, and or. For points, 17 words tie at 4 points, including am, be and me.
improbable 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for improbable. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
improbable is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing improbable unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is improbable, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from improbable 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 improbable produce 427 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 146 four-letter words, 96 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.