Hidden inside impure sit impure and umpire, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impure and umpire tie for the highest Scrabble score from impure at 10 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in impure: one comes from rearranging its letters, and impure 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 impure and umpire, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling impure produces exactly one five-letter word: prime. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in impure produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pure. For points, the strongest plays are perm, prim, and rump — 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 impure turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, pie, rep, rip, and rum. 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impure. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, um, and up. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mu, pe, 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 impure 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.
impure 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 three senses for impure. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
impure is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing impure unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are impure and umpire, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from impure 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 impure produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 12 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.