Hidden inside impugn sit impugn and umping, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impugn and umping tie for the highest Scrabble score from impugn at 11 points. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in impugn: one comes from rearranging its letters, and impugn itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are impugn and umping, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in impugn produces 5 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is gimp, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling impugn turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gum, gun, mug, pig, and pin. For points, the strongest plays are imp and ump — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impugn. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, um, and up. For points, the strongest plays are mi, mu, pi, um, and up — 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 impugn and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
impugn 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 one sense for impugn. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
impugn is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing impugn unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are impugn and umping, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from impugn 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 impugn produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.